help on bug #307566

[remus draica <rd baum ro>]

Hi,

I am trying to solve bug #307566
(http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=307566) opened against
gnopernicus. 

One of gnopernicus function is ability to speak a text character by
character in military mode ("alpha" for "a", "bravo" for "b", etc). In
English this is solved. All those "military characters" are marked for
translation. But, a lot of languages have other characters. Non of those
"other characters" get spoken in this approach. 

The solutions possible are:
1. use a table with columns: the unicode code and the "military
character"
	unicode		"military char"
	unicode(a)	N_("alpha")
	unicode(b)	N_("bravo")
	.....
	unicode(â)	N_("latin small letter i with circumflex")
	.....
 This method has the disadvantage of marking the entire unicode range
for translation while only few are really used in a language. This also
make the .po file very huge.

2. use a file for every language. In that file, only the proper range is
present and contains the "military characters"
for example, for English:

	unicode		"military char"
	unicode(a)	N_("alpha")
	.....
	unicode(z)	N_("zulu")

I prefer the second solution. 

Any other idea/solution is welcome.

Thanks and regards,
Remus