Re: GtkBuilder translator comments

[Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net>]

Le jeudi 07 janvier 2010 à 23:12 +0100, Wouter Bolsterlee a écrit :
> Op donderdag 07-01-2010 om 19:50 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Claude
> Paroz:
> > Le jeudi 07 janvier 2010 à 17:47 +0000, Patrick Welche a écrit :
> > > How do you add translator comments to GtkBuilder XML files?
> > > 
> > >   http://live.gnome.org/TranslationProject/DevGuidelines/Use%20comments
> > > 
> > > only mentions glade, and the "comments" property doesn't seem to exist.
> > > (i.e., no comments appear in .po files (cf dasher and #565774)
> > > 
> > > Please update the wiki page while you're at it ;-)
> > 
> > It seems that intltool wants the translatable attribute come before the
> > comments attribute in the tag attributes.
> > 
> > See the regexp in intltool.extract.in:
> > while ($input =~ /<(property|atkproperty|col)\s+[^>]*translatable\s*=
> > \s*"yes"(?:\s+[^>]*comments\s*=\s*"([^"]*)")?[^>]*>([^<]+)<\/\1>/sg) {
> 
> This is ridiculous, since attribute ordering is irrelevant according to
> the XML specification. Any reason not to use a real XML parser instead?
> I'm sure there are plenty available from Perl...

It could surely be improved, but I suggest you enter a bug report in
intltool:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/intltool

Claude