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seani:

--- Quote from: JdGordon on November 11, 2009, 03:01:19 PM ---you cant translate arbitrary text, it has to be text which is already in the language files.
%?ia<%ia|%Sx|Artist Unknown|>  would work *if* "Artist Unknown" is a translated string already.

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Understood, so I could tradeoff a longer description for something that would translate:

%?ia<%ia|%Sx|Artist|??>

or live with a partial translation:

%?ia<%ia|%Sx|Artist| Unknown>

?


ETA

Just to be clear, in the above examples, for German, I'd expect to see:

"Künstler??" and "Künstler Unknown"


as an approximation. Of course leaving a bit untranslated might be more confusion - the word order might be different natively etc.

JdGordon:
The first seems better... add a ": " before the ??'s though :)

seani:
I get you, thanks.

Does this also apply to multi-value conditionals, like %mp  ?


ETA:

pixelma also says there's an "UNKNOWN" translation.

So combining both, if I style it as "Artist: UNKNOWN" as opposed to the phrase "Unknown Artist" it should look natural.

In this particular case it's only where an ID3 tag is missing that I display the "Artist:" or "Title:" prompt. Where the tag is present, I just display the tag value.

JdGordon:
please dont edit posts after someone has already replied (I think you've been asked before?)

yes, you can put that tag anywhere any other tag can go

seani:
Thanks.

Possibly, but I have no way of knowing when they cross. My edit was started before your reply was posted, or at least visible to me.

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