[mythtv-users] Watch Recordings doesn't list size of single recording

Hika van den Hoven hikavdh at gmail.com
Sat Dec 12 22:02:47 UTC 2015


Hoi Roger,

Saturday, December 12, 2015, 10:33:35 PM, you wrote:

> On 12/12/15 20:20, Nicolas Riendeau wrote:
>>
>> Our translators translate a number of theme (which can change from one
>> release to another).
>>
>> To translate those themes we run a program that extracts the content of
>> certain fields and make them available for translation to the translators.
>>
>> Some of these fields are templating fields which I believe are used in
>> themes to format things such as times, etc... so it's not necessary from
>> a translation standpoint to make their format static.
>>

> That's interesting to know.
> Translators are the forgotten few. And, as an English-speaker, I am too
> ignorant of the translation process.

> But I was thinking more about the plurals. If the UI supplied mins/hrs
> as numbers then the theme could template "%n min(s)" but not
> "%n hour(s), %n minute(s)". Concatenating strings in a theme is difficult.

>>
>> I would have to check to make sure but I doubt the translation aspect of
>> things is what is putting the restrictions you guys mentioned and if the
>> problem is lack of formats in the frontend, we can add some more...
>>

> Given that the existing formats will remain, then adding window 
> attributes for the raw numbers would cover all eventualities.

I had to adjust a bit for my other frontend is lower resolution, so
now I see the full string and the "minutes" string in the "lenmins"
variable gets translated. It shows "minuten" in Dutch.

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