Re: [Powertop] PowerTOP: _("Cannot load from file")

On 06/01/2012 12:23 AM, Németh Márton wrote:
> Hi Chris,
> Chris Ferron wrote:
>> On 05/30/2012 09:53 PM, Németh Márton wrote:
>>> Hi Chris,
>>>
>>> I have seen in commit 0e9374d27bfa51b885ee3fe69fbb3b12bdae3600 that
>>> the last space of the "Cannot load from file " was removed. This results
>>> even in English the following output:
>>>
>>> Cannot load from file/var/cache/powertop/saved_parameters.powertop
>>>
>>> One solution would be something like this:
>>>
>>>     cout<<   _("Cannot load from file")<<   ""<<   pathname<<   "\n";
>> Good input thank you. I am still learning about the difficulty's in
>> translation on internationalization.
>> I will make some adjustments from your input.
> See the attached patch what I really ment.
>
> Otherwise it could be also better as I described:
ah ok.
So you would rather see translatable strings that look like this?

"PCI Device %s has no runtime power management"

or in this case

"Cannot load from file %s"
?

-Chris

>>> However, in Hungarian this sentence is difficult to translate because of
>>> the word order. For example the natural translation of the following
>>> English sentence would be:
>>>
>>>     English: Cannot load from file foo.bar
>>>     Hungarian: Nem lehetett a foo.bar fájlból betölteni
>>>
>>> As you can see in this case it would be better to use the %s format string
>>> for printing pathname because this gives better flexibility for the translator
>>> to place the pathname string in natural place in a translated sentence.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> 	Márton Németh
> From: Márton Németh<nm127(a)freemail.hu>
>
> Fix space between localized string and pathname.
>
> Signed-off-by: Márton Németh<nm127(a)freemail.hu>
> ---
> diff --git a/src/parameters/persistent.cpp b/src/parameters/persistent.cpp
> index 47b8824..553cccb 100644
> --- a/src/parameters/persistent.cpp
> +++ b/src/parameters/persistent.cpp
> @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ void save_all_results(const char *filename)
>
>   	file.open(pathname, ios::out);
>   	if (!file) {
> -		cout<<  _("Cannot save to file ")<<  pathname<<  "\n";
> +		cout<<  _("Cannot save to file")<<  " "<<  pathname<<  "\n";
>   		return;
>   	}
>   	for (i = 0; i<  past_results.size(); i++) {
> @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ void load_results(const char *filename)
>
>   	file.open(pathname, ios::in);
>   	if (!file) {
> -		cout<<  _("Cannot load from file ")<<  pathname<<  "\n";
> +		cout<<  _("Cannot load from file")<<  " "<<  pathname<<  "\n";
>   		return;
>   	}
>
> @@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ void save_parameters(const char *filename)
>
>   	file.open(pathname, ios::out);
>   	if (!file) {
> -		cout<<  _("Cannot save to file ")<<  ""<<  pathname<<  "\n";
> +		cout<<  _("Cannot save to file")<<  " "<<  pathname<<  "\n";
>   		return;
>   	}
>
> @@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ void load_parameters(const char *filename)
>
>   	file.open(pathname, ios::in);
>   	if (!file) {
> -		cout<<  _("Cannot load from file ")<<  ""<<  pathname<<  "\n";
> +		cout<<  _("Cannot load from file")<<  " "<<  pathname<<  "\n";
>   		return;
>   	}
>