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| ==== Translation Strings ==== | ==== Translation Strings ==== | ||
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| + | Translation strings use C-style string syntax. Double quotes are used to delimit the strings. Double quotes, line breaks and backslashes in strings need to be escaped using a | ||
| + | backslash -- ''\"'', ''\n'' or ''\r\n'' and ''\\'' respectively. All other characters should be used literally. | ||
| Some strings contain parameter placeholders like ''%s'' or ''%d''. These are replaced by the actual value at run-time. Make sure that you keep the same order as in the English string. We know that it can be difficult sometimes, because some languages have different word-orders, but it has to be so. Also translated strings should have approximately the same length as the original string. This applies mainly for strings that appear on dialogs. The error messages etc, might be usually as long as necessary. | Some strings contain parameter placeholders like ''%s'' or ''%d''. These are replaced by the actual value at run-time. Make sure that you keep the same order as in the English string. We know that it can be difficult sometimes, because some languages have different word-orders, but it has to be so. Also translated strings should have approximately the same length as the original string. This applies mainly for strings that appear on dialogs. The error messages etc, might be usually as long as necessary. | ||