Re: translating clock.schemas.in in gnome-panel

[Christian Rose <menthos gnome org>]

mån 2004-04-05 klockan 15.43 skrev Mark McLoughlin:
> 	I've just come across a rather messy little detail in gnome-panel wrt.
> the clock schemas.
> 
> 	Basically, we allow translators to change the default clock format to
> either 12 or 24 hour format. In 2.6, the new clock_format key is used
> for this rather than the hour_format key. The key can have either
> "24-hour" or "12-hour" as its value.
> 
> 	Unfortunately, most translators didn't realize this and translated the
> "hour" part into their native language and the clock applet can't handle
> these values.

Ouch!


> 	I'm not sure how to make this more obvious for translators. I tried
> adding a "Translators: here's how to translate this" comment in
> clock.schemas.in but intltool didn't handle it very well.

No, intltool doesn't support extraction of comments from XML files, and
I guess this is just another one in the long list of occasions where
this limitation has proven to be annoyin,g and its consequences even
fatal. This is the relevant bug report:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131505
(intltool should support translator comments in xml files)

Any help in solving this limitation in intltool would be most
appreciated. In any case, such help would make it possible to avoid
issues like the one you mention above from happening again in the
future.


Christian