Re: Cantus 3 I18N check

[Samuel Abels <spam debain org>]

Danilo,

Thanks for the helpful informations. I will fix all issues mentioned and
get back to this list then.

Thanks again for your time,

-Samuel

On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 15:11, Danilo Segan wrote:
> > As a preparation of a Cantus 3 final release with closer GNOME
> > integration I have proposed the program for GNOME2.8 on the
> > desktop-devel-list.
> >
> > I have been asked to have the internationalisation checked with this
> > list, so I would be glad to receive your comments.
> 
> Please use intltool for handling translations.  You can check a guide
> Malcolm wrote for integrating it with source code at
> http://gnome.org/~malcolm/i18n/.
> 
> It expects you to use auto* tools as a build system, but since you're
> not doing that, you might be able to get away with something like:
>    echo GETTEXT_PACKAGE=cantus >configure.ac && touch po/POTFILES.in \
>    && (cd po && intltool-update -m && mv missing POTFILES.in)
> 
> This would provide translators with rudimentary support for using
> intltool-update to update their translations.
> 
> You'd probably want to move .glade files out of POTFILES.in into
> POTFILES.skip, if you're using generated C code instead of Glade
> files directly.
> 
> You're also missing on using plural forms support, which is essential
> in Gnome for many languages.  The example of string that would
> benefit from ngettext usage is the following:
> 
> #: src/plugins/mpegheader/displayarea.cc:108
> #, c-format
> msgid "%i Files selected.\n"
> 
> Also, please read the guide at
>   http://developer.gnome.org/doc/tutorials/gnome-i18n/developer.html
> which is talking about many more issues relevant to i18n and l10n.
> 
> When you read that, you'll learn why are messages like
> 
> #: src/ui-gtk2/glade/cantus-3.glade.h:2 src/ui-gtk2/glade/strings.c:17
> msgid "<b>File Browsing</b>"
> 
> very bad (though, this is hard to avoid with Glade currently).
>
> There are probably some terminology issues as well (search for Gnome
> HIG and Gnome Documentation Style Guide on developer.gnome.org), but
> that's only partly in the I18N realm.
> 
> I hope this helps your cause of getting Cantus 3 into Gnome.
> 
> Cheers,
> Danilo
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