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Add variables to interface strings to support more languages #3481

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Aonghuso opened this issue Apr 11, 2024 · 1 comment · May be fixed by #3911
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Add variables to interface strings to support more languages #3481

Aonghuso opened this issue Apr 11, 2024 · 1 comment · May be fixed by #3911
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@Aonghuso
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Irish has recently been added as an interface language. However, because Irish has verb subject object word order, some of the translations are awkward or just plain wrong because parts of the string are not parts of the message string.

For example
#: src/view/com/notifications/FeedItem.tsx:170
msgid "liked your custom feed"
msgstr "a mhol do shainfhotha"

#: src/view/com/notifications/FeedItem.tsx:155
msgid "liked your post"
msgstr "a mhol do phostáil"

The subject is not part of the the string to be localised.

This leads to "X a mhol do phostáil"

But the idiomatic way to say this would be Mhol X do phostáil.

Using a placeholder for the subject would permit this.

@Aonghuso Aonghuso added the feature-request A request for a new feature label Apr 11, 2024
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kscanne commented Apr 11, 2024

As one of the contributors to the Irish localization, I can confirm that this is a significant problem. There is no way of rephrasing the translation to make it not completely awkward/ungrammatical.

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