#14: simplified translation and time output

[EmilyOng]

with regards to issue #14, i have reduced the complexity of how the markup is being rendered in the translation files by using string formatters, as suggested by @walterbender. i have also made the written/spoken time more direct, eg. one fourty-five PM, midnight, noon, one o'clock AM

[EmilyOng]

Thanks for the comments!

• [X] (1) You need to use gettext for the individual number and time words, e.g., _("four") on Line 487.

I have done that for the individual minutes and hours in the recent commit.

• [X] (2) You have lost some of the formatting in your expressions on Lines 499, 501, 503, and 505: %(hours), %(minutes) and %(period),

Improved formatting to eg. %(hour)s % {'hour': ...}

• [X] (3) You can leave some of the markup wrapper outside of the gettext call, e.g., . Just the spans that involve the strings that are translated need to be included inside the gettext call.

Left out markup wrapper that targets the entire string outside of gettext and only included relevant markup for colors

• [X] (4) re #3 above you need not use gettext for any of the markup on Lines 499 and 501 since there is no special format string used.]

Left out all markup outside of gettext and only used formatters within gettext

• [X] (5) You should include a comprehensive TRANS: note explaining what is expected by the translators.

Included for all gettext references that I have added

• [X] (6) Since we are no longer using time_writer, it should be removed (along with the import and timewriter.py)

Removed all instances of timewriter and the relevant files

[walterbender]

One last thing: it would be good to avoid lines longer than 80 characters throughout.

[leonardcj]

@EmilyOng @walterbender Looking forward to a much more easily localized Clock, thanks so much for the improvements in internationalization (i18n). It is so important for developers to learn about making their code easier to translate (L10n) into many languages by developing their i18n strategy along with the code.