Re: don't include formatting tags in messages?

[Christian Rose <menthos menthos com>]

fre 2003-01-24 klockan 13.08 skrev Marius Andreiana:
> Several applications include formatting tags in messages to be
> translated, e.g. '<bold>Behaviour</bold>'.
> I think the formatting tags shouldn't be included, so the message
> to translate is 'Behaviour'.
> 
> Any reason to have the formatting included?

>From the translator's perspective, there's usually no reason at all,
it's just a nuisance. I've written about it here:
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/tutorials/gnome-i18n/developer.html#avoid-markup

The problem with solving this are both on a technical and human level.
Many developers simply aren't aware of the problems the unnecessary
markup creates for translators, and on the technical side of things,
with Glade (which many GNOME applications use) there's no easy way to
avoid including markup in messages.

I suggest you try to file bugs in bugzilla for these messages, but try
to separate between non-Glade and Glade messages (messages that come
from a .glade[.h] file), since application developer's can't really
properly fix the problem in Glade messages for now, afaik.

The Glade bug report is here:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97061

Christian


PS. You're free to cc: me on all bug reports of this kind. DS.