Re: Save an attribute of a drop-down list item

[Cyrille Chepelov <cyrille chepelov org>]

Le Fri, Jun 11, 2004, Ã  11:36:02AM +0200, Ben Hetland a écrit:
> Cyrille Chepelov wrote:
>
> > Le Thu, Jun 10, 2004, Ã  11:23:10AM +0200, fenxp free fr a écrit:
> > > <dia:attribute name="type">
> > >  <dia:string>#Normal step#</dia:string>
> > > </dia:attribute>
> >
> >
> > you can't have that. "Normal step"  would typically be specified as a
> > translatable constant string (N_("Normal step")), which means that in
> > your locale, you'd actually save "Etape normale"
>
> Why can't it just be specified as an "untranslatable" string instead then?

because we want it to appear translated on the screen, that's why! The C
code is supposed to use the enum value, which is chomped by the
pre-processor or (no, Cyrille, not the pre-processor) by the first
stages of the lexer/parser.

Lars' suggestion of doing a temporary switch to locale "C" is
interesting. I would keep the numeric value as well (as I said, having
both will not hurt thanks to compression, and may ease scripting, for
sure).

        -- Cyrille
        
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