change for indefart strings

[Invision Board France]

Hello,

I notice that you will make a change for indefart strings in the next release. But I have a question with this change: how do you manage the article type?

If I take your example:

•  '__indefart_topic' => "a topic",
•  '__indefart_answer' => "an answer to a question",
•  '__indefart_question' => "a question",

In french, it gives:

• un sujet
• une réponse à une question
• une question

So how do you manage the choice of "un" or "une" ?

[Invision Board France]

I finally found the response in Tracker: not managed and should translate a by un/une.

So we wait a better solution for a future release.

 

[Meddysong]

I *think* from the context of the original bug report that these strings will be used in sentences such as "%s responded to %s's [topic/post in a topic/question/answer to a question] in %s".

If this is correct, then I think you'll need to add the indefinite articles yourself so that the finished sentences make sense for French, since you need them in that construction where English doesn't. I wouldn't be worried that it seems a duplication of the indefart strings. That's just a coincidence because of how the sentence is formed in French (a répondu à [un sujet/une réponse à une question] de %s dans %s). Many other languages (including English, because of the apostrophe-s) need a form which differs from the usual indefart one.