Re: Yelp stuff

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 12:59, 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?

No, it's my understanding that this is the intended behavior.  Entities
are an XML serialization thing.  A po file is not an XML file, and so
shouldn't really be using XML serialization.  Thus, &foo; inside a po
file should be regarded as the actual string &foo;, and it should be
escaped appropriately when serialized into an XML file.

Of course, following that logic, when I put “ in an XML file, the
entity shouldn't show up in the po file, but rather â should.  Which, of
course, is not what happens.

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Shaun