[Bf-committers] procedural translation proposal

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

-----> Shortlist of c files with translatable content:

(from blender/source/blender/src/)

buttons.c
edit**.c  (=wildcard)
filesel.c
headerbuttons.c
space.c
toets.c
toolbox.c


------> only include strings called with functions:

uiDefBut*(
okee(
error(
pupmenu(
add_numbut(
do_clever_numbuts
button(

I prefer a fixed shortlist of function calls that get translated, that  
way we exactly know what happens... even when it doesn't cover all  
interface strings.
For completeness, we then can add a code to force translation:
/* +TRANS */
or so. A line with this comments gets its string translated.

------> then process the strings:

Don't know about this one... how gettext will work with strings in  
pupmenus for example. So maybe:

- replace '|' with new-line
- remove '%' and everything that's after '%' up to space or newline

-Ton-


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