[Bf-committers] procedural translation proposal

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

Hrms, I could have mentioned the context. :)

This proposal was about a method to have template (for translation  
teams), which can be simply upgraded automatically for releases as well.

-Ton-


On Sunday, Jun 8, 2003, at 16:16 Europe/Amsterdam, John K. Walton wrote:

>
>
> clarification:
> 1) are the changes proposed to address the performance problems with  
> this
>    feature on some platforms?
> 2) or there was some functional inadequacy that the previous method
>    lacked (e.g. translation was gramatical gibberish).
>
> On Sun, 8 Jun 2003, Ton Roosendaal wrote:
>
>> 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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