Re: Yelp stuff

[Christian Rose <menthos gnome org>]

tis 2004-08-03 klockan 19.03 skrev Shaun McCance:
> (CC me on replies please.  I'm not on gnome-i18n.)
> 
> So Yelp had four strings marked for translation in l10n.xml.in that were
> just one-character entities: “ ” ‘ ’.  Most of
> the translations continued using entities for these.  But it seems that
> when intltool merges the translations in from the po files, it escapes
> everything.  So instead of having “ we have &8220;, which is
> not at all what's wanted.
> 
> I've decided to trust that people will have non-braindead editors and
> just put the UTF-8 characters in l10n.xml.in instead.  So the string
> “ has been replaced by “, etc.  Please, in your translations in
> the po files, do not use entities.
> 
> Since intltool doesn't copy comments through for XML

It does now thanks to Danilo -- see
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131505.


> you won't see the
> annotations I've put on everything in l10n.xml.in

Could you make sure the comments get extracted? AFAIK it should just be
a matter of putting the comment immediately preceding the line with the
value that gets extracted for translation by intltool.


Thanks,
Christian