Re: gettext domain(s) and Bonobo

[Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>]

On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Sergey I. Panov wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 07:07:05PM -0500, Elliot Lee wrote:
> > On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Sergey I. Panov wrote:
> > 
> > > I think that domain problem is even bigger --- e.g. if gill object
> > > is plugged into abiword, then, when menu is replaced by gill menu
> > > we will loose translations. E.g. when I insert image or mines component
> > > in gnumeric it still searching gnumeric domain:
> > 
> > >  There should be some way to pass gettext domain and use
> > > dgettext(COMPONENT_DOMAIN, str) for strings translation.
> > 
> > The way that I have been using so far (and the way that seems to work
> > best) is just to have the text translated at the source of the text.
> > Before passing text to gnumeric, the mines component should translate it.
> 
>  I agree. I realized it would be better next minute after I've mailed
> my message. There will be situations when servant is on a different
> host and there is no translations for it on a local machine.
> 
>  But in that case:
>   1) there should not be attempt to translate messages on the client side
>   2) client should pass to servant nessasary locale settings.

The locale settings are passed as part of the environment. (If you are
using a remote component, you need to have your environment correctly set
on the remote machine anyways.)

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