hi.

thanks alot for your hard work. I just want to comment on the last head version. I had a site running 5.1 with strings translated manually. I only translated what I needed using drupal's locale interface. it was working fine, until I saw the 5.1 dev release and imported it.

Now wherever the string %count would appear it would be left as is: %count

I opened this file in poedit and change the plural under settings/ project info, to this: nplurals=2; plural=(n !=1); X-Generator: KBabel 1.11.1 exactly as was the case with 4.7 bt that didn't work too.

now the string would be translated to nul, 0 wherever it appears.

this is so wierd and I can't solve it on my own so far.

my website's url is:
www.nattiq.com

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alaa commented

yes what is in HEAD at the moment is just the result of merging 4.7 po files with 5 pot files (automatically generated). it's not in any usable state at the moment.

I guess we should prioritize fixing these though so we can get a sense of how much work needs to be done

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mohammed76
Primary language English
Location Muscat
commented

hi again.

yes, I do agree with you. what do you think must be our next step? I am willing to help in this.

any thoughts on how to solve the problem mentioned above temporary? as I tried it on a live site.

thanks alot.

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alaa commented
Status: Active » Fixed

I've updated the translation fixing most %count like variables.

but really the current translation is unusable it's only there for people who will work on fixing it not for use on live sites.

I recommend you delete your arabic locale and start from scratch. you can try using the 4.7 translations as a temporary measure.

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mohammed76
Primary language English
Location Muscat
commented
Status: Fixed » Active

hi.

Alaa, sorry, the head version still doesn't fix this, so I went ahead and reset the status of this issue to "active".

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gharbeia commented

I am working on this and other issues at the moment. It seems like we will have a slightly better core HEAD by the end of the week: functional, but not proofed.

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gharbeia commented

I am working on this and other issues at the moment. It seems like we will have a slightly better core HEAD by the end of the week: functional, but not proofed.

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mohammed76
Primary language English
Location Muscat
commented

hi.

yes, the head version is really very good. it works so well.

what I can't find out, before marking this issue as closed once again is: how do I make the numbers appear like arabic numbers? see what I have currently for example:
منذ 5 من الأيام 12 من الساعات

thanks alot.

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adam_b commented
Title: the translation of %count in several places is messed up » how do I make the numbers appear like arabic numbers?

I'm not sure you can enforce this without specifying the numbers in code (eg &#1234). If you use regular numbers, I think that the workstation on which you're viewing them will decide whether to use indic or arabic numbers. [But I'm no expert, so feel free to prove me wrong.]

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testerx commented
Title: how do I make the numbers appear like arabic numbers? » Use 4.x.x instead of 5.x Arabic Translation PO for Drupal 5.x ????
Category: bug » support

@ alaa

I recommend you delete your arabic locale and start from scratch. you can try using the 4.7 translations as a temporary measure.
http://drupal.org/node/121529#comment-203045

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Is it okay really ?? can we use Arabic Translation 4.x... for Drupal Version 5.x ??

Please clarify.

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alaa commented

there is no need for that anymore, the 5.x po files are in useable shape now

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alaa commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)