Questions regarding some translatable strings in Galeon

Misu Moldovan <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.galeon.user
Message-ID <1105477124l.12449l.0l@twinsun>
Hi all,

In the process of updating the Romanian translation for Galeon I've  
encounter some problems in understanding the meaning of some strings.  
Please help me solve the last issues that I have:


1) "Short string, big headache"

#. translators: the first %s is the language name, and the
#. * second %s is the locale name. Example:
#. * "French (France)
#. *
#. * Also: The text before the "|" is context to help you decide on
#. * the correct translation. You MUST OMIT it in the translated  
string.
#.
#: utils/gul-iso-codes.c:339 utils/gul-iso-codes.c:345
#, fuzzy, c-format
msgid "language|%s (%s)"

Well obviuosly the developer tried to give some hints but I fail to  
fully understand. Because:
	a) the "%s (%s)" part must be present in the msgstr string
	b) it says I must omit the text before the "|"
	c) the example given contradicts the first two assertions.

My vote goes to either (following the example):
msgstr "România (Română)"

or (following the logic of translations):
msgstr "|%s (%s)"

I've translated thousands of strings in the last five years, but  
haven't encounter yet such a brain twister construction...


2) "I know you have to ask, but please don't..."

msgid ""
"Do not ask about lifetime for session cookies when lifetime policy is  
to ask"

Can please someone explain what is this all about? Is it sinonymous  
with the mundane "Don't ever ask about session cookies lifetime"?


Thanks all. Our browser is still the best.

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