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Учини контакте у овом погледу видљиве једне другима?
Учини контакте у овом погледу видљиве једне другима?
Make contacts in this aspect visible to each other?
Yes/No questions
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I'd like to make a general suggestion for future development, since Diaspora still seems to be at a relatively early stage.
In terms of l10n/l20n, it would be better if Yes/No questions were associated with individual Yes and No answer strings. In about half the worlds languages (including some big ones like Chinese, not just "weird ones" like Gaelic) there is no single word for Yes and No. These languages rely on echoing the verb i.e. in English you have
Are you sure? > Yes/No
but in those other languages you'd answer
Are you sure? > Am / Am notThis means that each answer depends on the verb in the question i.e. if the question was
Did you save? > Yes/No
Did you save? > Did / Did notHaving a single pair of Yes/No strings cover ALL these for the purpose of l10n creates big headaches and forces translators to come out with really twisted translations (often much longer than necessary) to allow answers via a single verb pair. For example, something like
Save? > Yes/No
which could be as short as?
Sàbhail > Sàbhail/Na sàbhail
in the current setup I have to make
A bheil thu airson sàbhaladh?
so the "generic" Tha/Chan eil answer can be user. -
*used
Somehow the title I picked got lost. Sorry. I called it "Yes/No questions"
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It would be great if you could raise this issue on Github, it will only get lost here tbh, since I don't have the time to make such a big change myself atm :)
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Happily. Where exactly on Github? I have a habit of picking the wrong thread...
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Filed, many thanks.
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make contacts in this aspect visible to each other?make contacts in this aspect visible to each other?
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make contacts in this aspect visible to each other?make contacts in this aspect visible to each other?
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Учини контакте видљиве једне другима?Учини контакте видљиве једне другима?
Учини контакте видљиве једне другима?
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Учини контакте у овом погледу видљиве једне другима?Учини контакте у овом погледу видљиве једне другима?
Учини контакте у овом погледу видљиве једне другима?
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Учини контакте у овом погледу видљиве једне другима?Учини контакте у овом погледу видљиве једне другима?
Учини контакте у овом погледу видљиве једне другима?
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Make contacts in this aspect visible to each other?Make contacts in this aspect visible to each other?
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Учини контакте у овом погледу видљиве једне другима?Учини контакте у овом погледу видљиве једне другима?
Учини контакте у овом погледу видљиве једне другима?