Re: [Translation-i18n] The reason for make dist updating po files

[U. <go...@ud...>]

Volodymyr M. Lisivka writes:
> This is easy - in Ukrainan language, slave word contains information about
> gender of master word (useful for referencing).
> 
> If master word passed to string via %s reference or program compose
> sentence from few strings, we have three variants of translation.

Composing sentences in the way you describe doesn't work in languages
closer to the original either.  (Swedish is closer to English than
Ukrainian is.)  %s can be used for things like file names and other
fixed strings, but not for proper parts of the sentences.  It would
not have worked TO English either, if the source string had been in
some other language.

Whenever I find things that are not translatable to Swedish for this
reason, I send a not to the author of the program.  I encourage you to
do the similarily.