[desktop entry spec] new FullName key

[Michael Pyne]

On Monday 03 August 2009 10:43:10 John Tapsell wrote:
> 2009/8/3 Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com>:
> > On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 17:36 +0300, John Tapsell wrote:
> >> > In languages that have case declensions, "%1 %2" and "%1 - %2"
> >> > could involve the GenericName being written differently.  So
> >> > you might write "Epiphany - Web Browser", but "Epiphany Webo
> >> > Browsero".  (Completely made up example, of course.)
> >>
> >> I don't get what you're saying.  I wrote  i18n("%1 %2"), but you might
> >> have missed that.  Is that the confusion?
> >
> > Where i18n() is the function that magically fixes translations ?
> > How does that work ?
> 
> So can you give an example please?  I still can't see any concrete case.

Well Shaun mentioned case declension but he didn't give one in his example.

For instance, if you had "Epiphany" and "Web Browser" and you wanted to 
combine them, some languages would require "Web Browser" to be in different 
case.

e.g. "Epiphany webo browsero"

The i18n() function couldn't just do a "plug in the translated string", either 
it would have to know how to make the cases work correctly, or a completely 
different translated string would be required.

Regards,
 - Michael Pyne
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