Re: Translation problems and bad strings

[Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm commsecure com au>]

On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 08:00, Christian Rose wrote:
> tor 2004-01-08 klockan 09.32 skrev Åsmund Skjæveland:
> > In C code, the programmer can add comments to explain tricky strings to
> > the translators. Is there any way to do this in schema, foo-ui.xml, or
> > Glade files? (If there is, I can file bugs requesting that this feature
> > be used.)
> 
> Not a way that I know of. But I know there is at least a bug report
> requesting this feature be added to glade:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115635
> 
> You can add comments there. For the other cases you mention, schema and
> general xml files, I'm not aware of any requests, so it would probably
> be good to also add such reports, as you mention.

As a side note to this: Denis Barbier has been making patches to
intltool that should eventually get us to the point of pulling out these
comments automatically (the basic stuff for comments in arbitrary files
is now in and the next step is extracting comments from things like
schema files).

malcolm