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"%{variable} ago" cannot be translated to some languages (incl. Hungarian) #4968
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Author: TomH The problem here is that we don't control the whole chain as part of the work is being done by rails - the substituted text "X hours", "Y days", "just now" etc comes from a rails method that generates a "friendly" description of the date. So without recreating all the work that rails does to select the various different forms of date, and then using a different string in our translations for each one, it's not clear what we can actually do here. |
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Reporter: kempelen
[Submitted to the original trac issue database at 7.23am, Wednesday, 28th August 2013]
There are several strings for OpenStreetMap.org website GUI that use a combination of "{variable}" for a time period and followed by word "ago".
The strings related to changes to NOTES:
2 hours ago
The string related to license acceptance:
2 years ago
"hours ago" is a single modified word of "hours" in Hungarian, so it cannot be translated separately. Also "years ago", "minutes ago" and so on.
2 hours -> 2 ra
ago -> ta
2 hours ago -> 2 rja
While current resulting string: "2 ra ta", that means "since 2 o'clock" which is totally false.
Some of the affected strings:
{{PLURAL|one=1 hour|%{count} hours}}
%{when} ago
Created %{when} ago
Accepted %{ago} ago
Recommended solution:
Possible solution 1:
Created %{when} hours ago
Created %{when} minutes ago
Created %{when} years ago
Or another solution:
%{count} hours ago
%{count} hours (if this format is also needed, make separate string)
%{count} years ago
%{count} years
But the first might be more secure for more languages, as that also allows to freely modify the order of words and so on.
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