New translation system doesn't work in Finnish

[Samuel]

Hi guys,

Thanks for a great plugin. You’ve changed the way translation works in the latest update. Nice job in other languages. The only problem is that it doesn’t work in Finnish because you can’t use just one word for events. I’ve tried to add translations on the .PO file, but it is really difficult because you have to use the %s string. Like in this case:

“No matching %s listed under %s. Please try viewing the full calendar for a complete list of %s.”

And because the %s gets replaced with the translation of events the text doesn’t make sense in Finnish. Too bad because it’s a good feature in other languages. Any ideas how this can be worked out with our beautiful language? 🙂

Just to be clear the problem is that you can’t use just one translation of the word “Events” because the word isn’t the same in every sentence. And I don’t mean plural.

[George]

Hi Samuel,

This is an interesting revelation and I assure you it’s s a feature of Finnish that we were not aware of when we made these changes!

As you (kindly!) mention, this feature does work superbly for most languages where this sort of verbiage makes sense. So while I can’t think of getting rid of this string-replacement altogether, there could be some alternatives here that would make it in a future release.

I will bring this up with the rest of the development team and see what can be done. In the meantime, I’m sorry to bear the bad news that there’s little that can be changed on the code-side of things.

Is there any Finnish-friendly solution you can think of for the translation itself, while we work on a better solution? Would leaving the word “Events” in English make sense at all? Perhaps if it was capitalized so as to be a proper noun, which would justify its lack of being translation? Just throwing out ideas. Let us know what you think.

I’m sorry for any inconvenience this has caused. Hopefully we can build a useful alternative here!

— George

[George]

Just a quick followup here – I’ve logged this as a ticket in our development system, so it’ll be a discussion point for upcoming releases and we’ll try to fix this promptly!

Thank you,
George

[Samuel]

Thanks for your quick response!

I’ll try to figure out something with the translations. And I do understand that you couldn’t know this feature in Finnish language. 😀

[Asbjørn]

Hi

poedit cant save the mo file when editing the event calendar pro .po files.

Please recommend other po-edit tool that works on OSX.

PS: Why does your po-files not work in poedit – it works with po files for other WP plugs and themes ?

Br
/sune

[George]

Hi,

If the .po files do not work in po-edit, it is because the translations are not properly coded. This is the reason we have to manually approve submissions, which we are working to do as fast as possible!

Until the new translation submissions are approved, the exported files from the Translations site will not work or include the new translations. We are working as fast as possible to update the translations so they work.

Thank you all for your patience, this is not something we’re taking lightly and are receiving many translation submissions. We need to approve the right ones.

Thank you,
George

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