pidgin: 87125652: Add a note for translators, because they...

[Richard Laager]

On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 02:00 -0400, markdoliner at pidgin.im wrote:
> Add a note for translators, because they probably have no idea what
> they're supposed to do with this.

> ============================================================
> --- libpurple/util.c	d2862b544833aff0243e38c2c411766d156516ba
> +++ libpurple/util.c	2851fe33372524e5cf129907982ac4a0443dd716
> @@ -718,6 +718,12 @@ purple_date_format_long(const struct tm 
>  const char *
>  purple_date_format_long(const struct tm *tm)
>  {
> +	/*
> +	 * This string determines how some dates are displayed.  The default
> +	 * string "%x %X" shows the date then the time.  Translators can
> +	 * change this to "%X %x" if they want the time to be shown first,
> +	 * followed by the date.
> +	 */
>  	return purple_utf8_strftime(_("%x %X"), tm);
>  }

Is this really the sort of change we'd want to suggest?

I think I was the one that marked this for translation under the theory
that the default may not be appropriate for all languages. Do we know if
that's actually the case anywhere?

Richard
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