1637136 - Most filters use the same including/excluding/others strings (confusing and hard to translate)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Search, defect)

Description

[ariasuni]

Right now, «People» filter is the only one to have its own strings; others use fallback strings: “including any of:”, “excluding:”, “other:”. The problem is that it simply does not permit proper translation, because the strings can refer to different things, and it doesn’t even work well in English.

For example, «including any of» can be translated in French as either «incluant n’importe lequel parmi :» or «incluant n’importe laquelle parmi :» depending on the grammatical gender of the word it refers to.

And in English, «including any of:» can be confusing for mailing lists, folders or accounts; it should be something much clearer/immediately understandable like «sent to any of:» for Mailing lists or «stored in any of:» for folders.

Comment 1

[ariasuni]

Attachment: Bug 1637136 - make more filters strings translatable independently

Comment 2

[Richard Marti (:Paenglab)]

Ariasuni, you should add a reviewer to get this bug further. :mkmelin could be a candidate.

Comment 3

[ariasuni]

(In reply to Richard Marti (:Paenglab) from comment #2)

Ariasuni, you should add a reviewer to get this bug further. :mkmelin could be a candidate.

Should I add :mkmelin to my other two patches D74553 and D74542, or someone else? Or am I expected to ask for a reviewer on Matrix?

Comment 4

[Richard Marti (:Paenglab)]

(In reply to ariasuni from comment #3)

Should I add :mkmelin to my other two patches D74553 and D74542, or someone else? Or am I expected to ask for a reviewer on Matrix?

:aleca would be the right for Linux theme patches.

Comment 5

[ariasuni]

I updated my patch on Phabricator yesterday, so I’m waiting for a review.
https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D74854

Comment 6

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/d71afb9ddf43
make more filters strings translatable independently. r=mkmelin DONTBUILD