Trivial typo: please amend 'Replac' to 'Replace'

[rdmo]

https://midnight-commander.org/browser/po/en_GB.po#L1550 is:

msgid "ButtonBar|Replac"

Please amend it to:
msgid "ButtonBar|Replace"

Sorry this isn't a patch. That's somewhere further along the learning curve.

[zaytsev]

This is not a typo. Button bar labels are adjusted on purpose such that they fit standard size 80x24 terminals.

[egmont]

As an improvement, we could allow multiple translations for button labels (e.g. separated by the pipe symbol) and the longest one that fits without being truncated would be chosen automatically. (Don't we already have a ticket for this??)

E.g.

msgstr "Replac|Replace"
msgstr "Ren|RenMov|RenameMove|Rename/Move|Rename or Move"
msgstr "PullDn|PullDown|Pull Down|Pull Down Menu"

etc.

It is crucial that mc is usable on 80 columns (and "Replac" is way better than "Rep~ce" as the result of automatic truncation of "Replace" to 6 characters), yet presumably many people often use it on wider terminals and why not use the available UI to show more information and/or proper spelling?

Or is this an overkill?

[egmont]

Even on 70 columns (5 characters per button) it would be better have "RenMv" instead of "Re~ov", "Del" instead of "De~te" etc.

[ossi]

i implemented length variants in Qt, and it's an utter nightmare for the dynamic layout system (which is why the feature is mostly ignored). that may be a lesser concern with mc's more rigid layouting.

if you go for this, i suggest you take inspiration from Qt Linguist's handling of the strings in .po files, to avoid another non-standard extension: longest variant first, U+2762 as variant separator (in .qm files (.mo equivalent), the separator is U+9c, but that's not reliably representable in a text file, so i chose an arbitrary character which looks a bit like a separator and is very unlikely to show up in a message).