Re: [Banshee-List] Please run make update-po in po/

["Josiah Ritchie" <josiah ritchie gmail com>]

On 2/28/07, Colin Marquardt <colin marquardt-home de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> please run make update-po in the po/ subdirectory and commit the po
> files - they (the de.po at least) are very old and translators don't
> have the latest strings for translation.
>
> Also, I noticed a lot of strings like these:
>
> msgid "<b>Album Cover:</b>"
>
> According to the Gnome i18n guidelines, they should be constructed
> so that translators don't need to take care of the Pango markup
> unless absolutely necessary:
>    http://developer.gnome.org/doc/tutorials/gnome-i18n/developer.html
> ("Avoid markup wherever possible")
>
> An example given there is
>
>    str = g_strdup_printf ("<b>%s</b>",
>                         _("My translated string"));
>
> This would be a welcome change for the next development series, even
> if it means translators have to strip out some of the markup again :)

This sounds like a good candidate for a bug:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/. That way we could have it available for
people wanting to get familiar with the code. I imagine this would be
a good place to start and might give a chance to become familiar with
internationalization also. They could provide patches more easily in
bugzilla.

JSR/

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