Wuzzy | hi, I have a problem with translation in launchpad. In the original string, there are 13 spaces at the end. The translated string only needs 6 spaces. But no matter how many spaces I add in my translation, launchpad _always_ appends 13 spaces to the translation. How do I get rid of this behaviour? | 02:32 |
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wgrant | Wuzzy: It's not possible to make such translations in the web UI; leading and trailing whitespace is normalized to match the English string, as that's almost always the right thing to do. Why do you need a different number of spaces? | 03:20 |
Wuzzy | Because I am translating an ncurses application in which the number of spaces matters. | 03:21 |
wgrant | Hm, I'd expect the application to implement the padding itself. | 03:21 |
Wuzzy | Yeah I know, this sucks. | 03:21 |
wgrant | Having it embedded in the strings seems somewhat fragile, as it will break all the translations if they need to widen a column by a single character! | 03:22 |
Wuzzy | Yeah I know this sucks. | 03:22 |
Wuzzy | okay then I have to bother the developers of the application instead ... lol | 03:23 |
wgrant | Heh, yeah :/ | 03:24 |
wgrant | But normalizing whitespace is usually the sensible thing to do; translators have a bad habit of missing trailing spaces in particular. | 03:25 |
ryanakca | Is there a way to stop receiving PPA related messages for teams you belong to? | 15:42 |
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NikTh | Hello , can anyone tell me which e-mail address is used as the forwarded address of @ubuntu.com alias ? The preferred one or the "set as contact" one ? | 18:05 |
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