Persona: l10n issue? (unnumbered placeholders)

[Eduardo Trápani]

Hi,

Would it be possible to number the placeholders?

For example, this sentence:

"By proceeding, you agree to %s's <a %s>Terms</a> and <a %s>Privacy
Policy</a>."

As far as I can see the current Spanish[1] or French[2] translations
will simply not work. And it is pretty hard for me to write a sentence
with the placeholders in that fixed order.

In German[3] they solved it nicely, but the sentence now reads something
like: "by proceeding you confirm to %s that you accept the ..." that is
not exactly what the original sentence means. Anyway, I think those
unnumbered placeholders make the translation unnecessarily difficult.

Eduardo.

[1]
https://localize.mozilla.org/es/browserid/LC_MESSAGES/client.po/translate/?unit=1226296
[2]
https://localize.mozilla.org/fr/browserid/LC_MESSAGES/client.po/translate/?unit=1227160
[3]
https://localize.mozilla.org/de/browserid/LC_MESSAGES/client.po/translate/?unit=1226998

[Matjaz Horvat]

Hey Eduardo,

Please have a look here:
https://github.com/mozilla/browserid/issues/1960

To sum it up,

1. We'll have more meaningful string replacements ready for the next train.
Instead of %s we'll use %somethingMeaningful.

2. Until then, it might be useful for you to translate "By proceeding, you
agree to %s's <a %s>Terms</a> and <a %s>Privacy Policy</a>." as something
like "By proceeding, you declare to %s that you agree to their <a

%s>Terms</a> and <a %s>Privacy Policy</a>.

-Matjaž

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[Eduardo Trápani]

> Please have a look here:
> https://github.com/mozilla/browserid/issues/1960

Good to know it's being taken care of.

In the meantime could you contact the es and fr team? Both will show it
wrong, with a link in place of the service name and the service name
hidden behind a link. And the 'es' one is missing the 's' after '%'.

> 2. Until then, it might be useful for you to translate "By proceeding,
> you agree to %s's <a %s>Terms</a> and <a %s>Privacy Policy</a>." as
> something like "By proceeding, you declare to %s that you agree to their
> <a %s>Terms</a> and <a %s>Privacy Policy</a>.

I'll do that. Thanks.

Eduardo.

[Matjaz Horvat]

Hey,

Let me remind you that the deadline for the next Persona release is
tomorrow, July 17 5:00 PM UTC.

Shall you have any questions, I'm happy to help.

-Matjaž

On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Matjaz Horvat <matjaz...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Howdy,
>
> The last train (train-2012.06.22) scheduled for a release last Wednesday
> will be released on Monday, July 9 (due to holidays in North America). It's
> bringing Persona rebrand, including new urls.
>
> The next Persona release (train-2012.07.06) is scheduled for Wednesday,
> July 18, so we'd like to kindly ask you to finish your work by Tuesday,
> July 17 5:00 PM UTC. New strings are already available in Verbatim & SVN.
> For now, we're keeping the old (browserid) URLs in both, Verbatim and SVN.
>
> This train, unlike its predecessor, is focused on UI refinement and
> stability fixes, rather than new features. Every user facing phrase has
> been reviewed, so there are 24 new and 30 fuzzy strings.
>
> There are still some open issues with strings in the current train, but
> not of them is critical. Please have a look here:
> https://github.com/mozilla/browserid/issues/1960
>
> If you're using Verbatim, please don't forget to commit your changes to
> VCS under the Review tab. After that, you'll be able to test your
> translations on our preview environment:
> http://ozten.com/random/browserid/bid_test.html
>
> Shall you have any questions, I'm happy to help.
>
> -Matjaž
>