891918 - Mistakes in the Thunderbird nl/Dutch locale.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 666923

(Mozilla Localizations :: nl / Dutch, defect)

Description

[Philip Chee]

Ploeff wrote:
And in the Dutch translation of Thunderbird there is a mistake in the tekst regarding the order of words. It now reads: "Op 8-7-2013 10:40, Kees de Haas schreef:" and should read "Op 8-7-2013 10:40, schreef Kees de Haas:" The verb "schreef" (wrote) should precede the name of the author.

Freee!! wrote:
If you are paying attention to such details: The comma shouldn't be there in Dutch either. And I can name a couple more if I really put my mind to it (yes I am Dutch and both of my parents are retired teachers). It should read: "Op 8-7-2013 om 10:40 schreef Kees de Haas:"[/quote]

Comment 1

[rsx11m]

Replacing "8-7-2013 10:40" with "8-7-2013 om 10:40" likely won't work given that date and time are part of the same %s substitution and derived from the date format of the operating system (short date/time in Windows, LC_TIME setting in Linux).

Comment 2

[Ton [:Tonnes]]

This bug is basically a dupe´s dupe.

See:
bug 549062 - TB 1.9.2
bug 576493 - woordvolgorde reply-header

bug 666923 - When replying, the phrase "on date xyz abc wrote:" is translated wrong (type 2. vs 3. grammar conflict)
bug 658869 - [nl] mozilla-aurora/nl thunderbird

A fix/workaround has been implemented into Aurora, Beta and Release around March 11, which happened in the current Aurora bug (bug 658869). According to my experience, this worked fine for TB 23 Aurora on Windows, even after the relevant preferences have already been changed (although I forgot if a reset was needed). As we’re currently at release version 17.0.7, I would expect the problem to have vanished for that version, but I was told that v17 does not take l10n changes after its release (because it is treated as an ESR version). A quick way it to check whether "mailnews.reply_header_type" has a default value of 3 using the config editor. Another option is to download the latest Aurora version for your OS, use it with a new profile and check its behaviour. You can find them at https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/latest-comm-aurora-l10n/ .

What we need is feedback for Mac and Linux mainly, but feedback for Windows is also apprecated. Please post your results here. I’ll leave the dupe / status flags to change for Tim.

Comment 3

[Tim Maks van den Broek [:mad_maks]]

As Ton said this is fixed in the nightly/aurora/beta train and this fix will come to ESR on september 10 when Thunderbird 24 ESR will be released