Change in "Events" syntax in 3.10 ruined the translations for Finnish

[Kari Turunen]

Hi,

just to let you know, in the future you should never use the Custom Post Type names in translations with %s. E.g. “All %s” as “All Events”. Just a few reasons:
– In many languages you don’t write all terms with the first letter capitalized. E.g. in Finnish a translation for “All Events” is not supposed to be “Kaikki Tapahtumat”, but “Kaikki tapahtumat”.
– Especially in Finnish, not all instances of “Events” are written in the same way. Depending on the context, it could be:
“All Events” = “Kaikki tapahtumat”
“Search Events” = “Hae tapahtumista”
“View events” = “Katso tapahtumia”

As a rule of thumb, you should not expect other languages to follow same grammar rules as English and force some specific terms into translation strings. The older format that you used allowed us to make proper, professional translations. Now the texts will always look a bit unprofessional and stupid as we cannot translate them properly. =(

Yours,
A-P

[Brian]

Hi,

Sorry for the issues with the translations.

I have shared your concerns with the staff and we are working on a way to resolve this, but I do not have any details on it right now.

[Support Droid]

This topic has not been active for quite some time and will now be closed.

If you still need assistance please simply open a new topic (linking to this one if necessary)
and one of the team will be only too happy to help.

[Leah]

Hi there,

We wanted to check in here and update you on our progress. Although we weren’t able to address your issue in our upcoming release (3.11) we do still have it on our radar. Thank you for your patience while we continue working on a fix for the problem you reported. We will do our best to keep you posted when we have a solution in place. In the meantime, if you need help or find that the issue you reported here is no longer a problem, please feel free to start another thread.

Thanks again for your patience and understanding!

Cheers,
Leah
and the rest of The Events Calendar team

[Geoff]

Hey there!

Just wanted to jump in here and let you know that we released The Events Calendar 4.0.6 last night and it included a fix for this issue. Please check your WordPress updates, or you can also grab the latest copy over at WordPress.org.

Thanks for your patience while we worked on this! Please feel free to open a new thread if you continue to experience the same issue or have any other questions that pop up during updating and we’d be happy to help. 🙂

Cheers!
Geoff

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