Re: [Evolution-hackers] intltool xml file mess

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

I've got a ~100line bit of code that will do what i need, so i'll just use that.  It generates a .h file to bed fed to the translation mechamism rather than using the xml files themselves.

(as usual i've ended up just talking to myself, sometimes i wonder why i bother).

On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 16:20 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
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>     So when intltool does its stuff on .xml files, apart from expanding all the languages into the merged file, it strips all whitespace down to a single space.
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>     Which means all the e_error stuff can't do any formatting at all, which looks 'rawlee bad'.  When I wrote the stuff it didn't do this, and then I never really took much notice after i i18n'd it.
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>     Any ideas?  Can you stop intltool doing this?  Do we need to write another tool to do the string extraction, instead (i'm thinking this might be the way to go - we can fix the absurd file expansion too).
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>     What about the POTFILES.in, is it just stripping all the linefeeds before it goes there too??
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>     Ugh. what a huge PITA.
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Michael Zucchi <notzed ximian com> Ximian Evolution and Free Software Developer

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