Re: [Evolution-hackers] templates i18n question

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On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 16:57 -0400, JP Rosevear wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 11:48 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> > Sorry if this is a newbie question...
> > 
> > I'm working on the Templates support.  In order to learn the code, and
> > as a first try at an implementation, I'm starting by making a copy of
> > the Drafts folder called (obviously) Templates.  Then I'll change the
> > behavior as specified.
> > 
> > One step that's clearly required is translating "Templates" into all the
> > supported languages.  Any pointers for where to start?
>
> We've put the default inbox for translation in evolution/mail/default,
> however I know the translation teams aren't particularly fond of this so
> any solution you come up with should probably handle this case as well.

I think i18n-tool now supports email messages.  I presume it extracts the text parts for use in normal po files.  But i'm only guessing that from command line arguments i've seen.

> Another thought is if the default templates are really needed at all,
> what ones are you making?

I think if we can just pass an mbox to i18n-tool, someone can come up with some useful defaults and it is easy to integrate into i18n when required.  They may not have need of many unique translated strings anyway.