| From: | Jyrki Wahlstedt <jwa(at)wahlstedt(dot)fi> |
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| To: | Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "Dave Page" <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org>, <pgadmin-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Guillaume Lelarge" <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info> |
| Subject: | Re: A bunch of minor issues |
| Date: | 2007-09-26 11:48:20 |
| Message-ID: | 89318FFD-1235-4BA5-8CF9-82B28CEC1051@wahlstedt.fi |
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On 26.9.2007, at 14.26, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Dave Page
>> As you know I work in OS X and Windows most of the time and I know
>> there
>> are no sizing issues there in English. Is this something specific to
>> running in Finnish (should that be Fin?), or GTK do you think?
FI (or fi) should be enough (I am not sure, what you are looking for).
>
> Finnish texts do tend to more longer than English. It's not a
> problem in
> most places, but for example "Rename" in the favourites manager is
> translated to "Nimeä uudelleen", which is quite a bit longer. If we
> just
> made the space reserved for the button bigger, it would look quite
> silly
> in English I think. But as it is, the button is partly underneath the
> "Remove" button.
That translation is a literal one. If something has a name already,
"Nimeä" could be enough, it means then rename?! This is a suggestion
only, and the problem remains, some translations are bound to be
longish, in the user interface controls that will be difficult.
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