Re: Proposal: Translator comments for GLADE and schema files inseparate file

[Christian Rose <menthos gnome org>]

sön 2004-03-21 klockan 16.12 skrev Åsmund Skjæveland:
> One of our problems is the lack of translator comments in glade and
> schema sources.

Yes indeed. See:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115635
(Glade needs to support message comments aimed for translators)
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131505
(intltool should support translator comments in xml files)


> One way around this would be to add a feature to intltool that
> extracts all the translatable strings from the XML files and writes
> them to a file, say, "translatable-strings.h". This file isn't used
> for anything when compiling, but since the strings here are
> encapsulated in C code, it's possible to add translator comments,
> which intltool-update will pick up and put in the pot.

Isn't this exactly how intltool-update XML string extractions already
works?


Christian