Re: Yelp stuff
- From: David Malcolm <dmalcolm redhat com>
- To: Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>
- Cc: gnome-i18n gnome org
- Subject: Re: Yelp stuff
- Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 14:04:25 -0400
On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 13:59 -0400, David Malcolm wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 12:03 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote:
> > (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.
>
> Have you added this to bugzilla?
>
> >
> > 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 “ has been replaced by â, etc. Please, in your translations in
> > the po files, do not use entities.
>
> Am I right in thinking that l10.xml.in is now no longer well-formed XML?
>
> So by "non-braindead editors", do you mean source-level editors, as
> opposed to XML editors? :-P
oops...sorry, I got confused between â and "
so by "non-braindead", you mean a po editor that supports UTF-8
properly, right?
>
> >
> > Since intltool doesn't copy comments through for XML, you won't see the
> > annotations I've put on everything in l10n.xml.in. For anybody who does
> > not know what these four strings are, â and â are used for quotations in
> > English, and â and â are for quotes inside of quotes. Translate them to
> > whatever your language uses for quotations.
> >
> > As a reminder, this is all happening on the gnome-2-6 branch of Yelp.
> >
> > --
> > Shaun
> >
> >
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