Re: Unnecessary markup

[Christian Rose <menthos gnome org>]

sön 2004-01-11 klockan 16.14 skrev Francisco J. F. Serrador:
> We must insist to the developers to avoid including tagged strings like 
> <p>Properties</p> and the like. These strings multiply our work in an
> innecessary way.

Yes, and if you see it in C code, please file a bug in Bugzilla right
away. See
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/tutorials/gnome-i18n/developer.html#avoid-markup for lots of pointers on why having markup directly in translatable messages is almost always an extremely bad idea.

However, in my experience most remaining cases are in Glade stuff, and
unfortunately this appears to be not trivially solved in Glade (see
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97061). If I'd only had the
money for it, this bug alone would be worth *so* many bounties. It's
been a major pain for GNOME translators for several years now, and this
pain still increasing with each day, as developers decide to switch to
Glade or do new interfaces using Glade.


Christian