[Koha-bugs] [Bug 16679] New: Translatability problems in system preferences

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=16679

            Bug ID: 16679
           Summary: Translatability problems in system preferences
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           Product: Koha
           Version: master
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P5 - low
         Component: I18N/L10N
          Assignee: koha-bugs at lists.koha-community.org
          Reporter: veron at veron.ch
        QA Contact: testopia at bugs.koha-community.org
                CC: frederic at tamil.fr

Koha's system preferences are constructed and displayed in a very elegant way
in English, but not all languages have the same syntax, and we get a lot of
translation issues due to sentence splitting. 

In some cases, translators can work around such problems, but we will always
have odd translations. Odd translations do not look very professional at all,
and they can lead to misunderstandings and misconfigurations.

Additionally, it is very frustrating and discouraging for translators.

IMO, the best way to get rid of such translation problems would be to use whole
sentences, followed by the preference's value.

Example (taken from Bug 16669):

Instead of...
[Don't use/Use] CAS for login authentication.

...the following would be much better in terms of translatability:
Use CAS for login authentication: [Yes / No]

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