Re: Translation problems

[Martin G. <gim...@gi...>]

Ondrej Jombik <ne...@po...> writes:

>                                         Maxim, 19:37:40
>                                         20. maj 2002 (pondelok)
> Greetings.
>=20
> 	I recognize to make Slovak translation of phpWeather,

Great!

> but I have a few problems. It seems to be impossible to make proper
> translation of report only with existing translation array.
>=20
> 	One example for all. I want to say when report was made in Slovak=20
> language.
>=20
> Report bol urobeny  1 hodinu a  1 minutu dozadu.
> Report bol urobeny  2 hodiny a  2 minuty dozadu.
> Report bol urobeny  5 hodin  a  5 minut  dozadu.
> Report bol urobeny 22 hodin  a 22 minut  dozadu.
>=20
> 	I hope you understand where is problem. Slovak traslations of
> words ``hour'' and ``minute'' depends on used number. In others
> fields is situation similar.
>=20
> 	Should I override pw_text methods or other solution should be used?

Yes, exactly. You would simply copy the function print_pretty_time
From=20pw_text.php to pw_text_sk.php and then you would be able to
change how the time is formatted.

You would probably have to change the

$minutes =3D sprintf($this->strings['time_minutes'],
                   $this->properties['mark_begin'],
                   $minutes,
                   $this->properties['mark_end']);

into something like this:

if ($minutes =3D=3D 1) {
  $minutes =3D sprintf('a %s1%s minutu dozadu',
                     $this->properties['mark_begin'],
                     $this->properties['mark_end']);
} elseif ($minutes =3D=3D 2) {
  $minutes =3D sprintf('a %s2%s minuty dozadu',
                     $this->properties['mark_begin'],
                     $this->properties['mark_end']);
} else {
  $minutes =3D sprintf('a %s%s%s minuty dozadu',
                     $this->properties['mark_begin'],
                     $minutes,
                     $this->properties['mark_end']);
}

The same goes for the hours.

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