Re: Copyright/Legalnotice and an update

[Ali Abdin <aliabdin aucegypt edu>]

* Alexander Kirillov (kirillov math sunysb edu) wrote at 22:35 on 10/09/00:
> It is good to hear tha <legalnotice> is done!
> 
> But: I consider i18n stuff as a showstopper. Yes, I know you do not
> have much time, and this is not to put you under pressure - but if
> this can't be done by someone  (not necessarily you), I'd rather
> ship html. 

I am a strong advocate and supporter of i18n and I do not consider it a
'showstopper' bug if only a few words are not translated.

Lets look at the GTP's status table - A lot of languages are not '100%'
translated - Are these 'showstopper' bugs??? Should we delay the release of
gnome-libs/gnome-core until they are 100%??? I don't think so.

Just becasue "Next", "Prev", "Copyright", "Figure", and "Table" (these are the
main strings) does not make the Help System entirely unusable. 

Don't get me wrong - it is a bug that needs to be fixed but its not a
showstopper.

> If you need suggestions: why can't we just hard-code all the words
> that need to be translated into gnome-db2html2?There are few of these
> words (figure/appendix/.., nav. labels), and we can just dig them from
> Norman' stylesheets ourselves or ask our translation teams for help. 

I pointed out the 'issues' related to this. I can i18n the strings, but then
the application would display the strings based on YOUR LOCALE and not the
DOCUMENTS LOCALE.

I have a possible solution though. We could somehow 'figure out the locale'
from the Document, and then we use 'g_setenv' to set the locale to the
document's locale. Can somebody please give me an example of a translated doc
(i.e. how does it identify it's locale?)

Regards,
Ali
 
> On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 07:46:35PM -0200, Ali Abdin wrote:
> > 
> > I've made it so that doing 'gnome-db2html2 file.sgml?legalnotice' will now
> > print out the legalnotice.
> > 
> > This means you can no longer use 'legalnotice' as sect* or chapter tag.
> > Actually - you can use it - but you will get 'undesirable' results (the
> > legalnotice will be output and the sect may or may not be output'd (not sure
> > since I haven't tested it)).
> > 
> > I think this is what people wanted, so please test it out and tell me of any
> > irrational behavior or bugs.
> > 
> > I've also cleaned up the HTML a bit so its more 'HTML compliant'. There still
> > are some issues with it though (although it does not effect rendering (I've
> > only tested netscape though)).
> > 
> > I also noticed another thing while going through the code - gnome-db2html2
> > currently puts HTML anchor tags where the <sect2's> and <sect3's> begin :) so
> > it might just be a matter of linking to them from the TOC (in the future).
> > 
> > Anyway - the one last 'major' obstacle in my opinion is to handle book's.
> > 
> > I believe all the 'showstopper' bugs are done. Anyone got something I should
> > add to my TODO list?
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Ali
> > 
> 
> 
> 
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