Re: Ever experienced gnome-doorman i18n bugs?

[Pablo Saratxaga <pablo mandrakesoft com>]

Kaixo!

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 03:02:30PM +0200, Emese Kovacs wrote:

> I would like to ask other people involved in gnome-doorman translation, if
> they also have experienced i18n problems within the running gnome-doorman. I

> Problems include: graphics containing strings that should be localized,
> strings that show up in the po files but remain English in the running
> software,

Check that the very first header included in all files with translatable
strings is #include "config.h"
if gnome.h is included before HAS_NLS is defined; then the _( ) macro
will be defined to do nothing.

Also, the N_( ) macro does nothing (it is just a markup so the strings
can be found and put in the po files); there must be a call to gettext
(or _( ) macro) later on.
eg:

char *foo[] = { N_("foo"), N_("bar") }

isn't enough, there must be a _(foo[0]) and _(foo[1]) somewhere for the
translation to be actually called.

That happens for the titles of tables, gtk uses an array of strings and
passes a pointer to the array to the function that draws the table;
that means you have to translate the titles before that.
I do it like this:

#ifdef HAS_NLS
	{
		int i=0;
		for (i=0;i<SOME_MAX_VALUE;i++) foo[i]=_(foo[i]);
	}
#endif


maybe you can check for a NULL for the end of the array in some
cases.

> country list comming from countries.h not maked up for gettext.
> 
> I would love to learn how to make patches for these issues (especially
> strings that are in the po file and do not get translated in the software,
> like the ones coming from page-config.c).

Is gnome-doorman in the Gnome CVS (or a publicly available CVS)?

> 
> Has anybody got a little time to help me?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Emese -- Hungarian translator
> 
> PS: As a nice translator, I have no intention to commit whatever to
> (code)source files, I only would like to learn how to make nice patches that
> developers like, because it seems that dealing with i18n is really low
> priority for them.
> 
> PS2: gnome-doorman might be deprecated, as developers tend to focus on
> gnome2?
> 
> 
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Pablo Saratxaga

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