Re: Default mail in Evolution

["Christian Rose" <menthos gnome org>]

On 9/19/08, F Wolff <friedel translate org za> wrote:
> On Vr, 2008-09-19 at 00:01 +0200, Robert-André Mauchin wrote:
>  > Shaun McCance a écrit :
>  > >
>  > > So the file looks like HTML, plus a plain text alternative,
>  > > and a few images, all packed into an mbox file.  Why can't
>  > > we just have source HTML and PNG files, and have a script
>  > > that automatically generated the mbox file?  Then we could
>  > > easily translate it with xml2po.
>  > >
>  > > --
>  > > Shaun
>  > >
>  > I was thinking that doing it at runtime would be very painful. Could we
>  > generate theses Inbox files at build time with a simple shell script and
>  > some gettext magic.
>  > We should add this script into POTFILES.in, and call it during make.
>  >
>  > A draft is attached, but it would be good if a developer could do that
>  > for us.
>  >
>  > Regards
>
>
> I had something similar in mind, but started out with Python. I _think_
>  (but will need some confirmation) that we'll need to do a little bit
>  more than this. Having the whole file as one unit in the PO file will
>  make it an extremely daunting task, especially to maintain in case of a
>  change in the English.
>
>  My idea is not complete at all, but I attach it as well. You'll see a
>  few extra goodies mentioned (some implemented), such as properly
>  encoding the header entries, so that we have valid from and subject
>  fields in the non-ASCII case. I also think we should try to avoid
>  translating the HTML and plain version separately. (Guess if I'm from a
>  small localisation team.)
>
>  The basic idea is using Inbox.in as a big Python string with variables
>  that are substituted in the strings.py program, that uses plain gettext
>  in Python, and therefore even supports translator comments. As a bonus
>  we could even generate the date of having a variable for the date at
>  build time to have it current instead of static in the file.
>
>  This is not yet integrated in the build system, but I guess somebody
>  might be able to help with that.
>
>  I hope it is of help somehow.

It sure may be, but please make sure patches (and other suggestions
for a solution) are also kept in the bug report at
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206066.


Christian