Re: [Evolution-hackers] templates i18n question

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 18:37 +0200, Danilo Šegan wrote:
> Today at 15:31, Not Zed wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 16:57 -0400, JP Rosevear wrote:
> >
> >> We've put the default inbox for translation in evolution/mail/default,
> >> however I know the translation teams aren't particularly fond of this so
> >> any solution you come up with should probably handle this case as well.
> >
> > I think i18n-tool now supports email messages.  I presume it extracts
> > the text parts for use in normal po files.  But i'm only guessing that
> > from command line arguments i've seen.
>
> If you're thinking of intltool, no it doesn't actually (or at least,
> it would not be usable for what you need in evo/mail/default; rfc
> message support is there for some Debian-style files). 
>
> OTOH, if you're interested, I can work on adding adequate support (I
> described what I'd do before, but nobody seemed interested: basically,
> I'd only add simple text-markup for message extraction and merging).

Ahh, thats a bummer.  Currently we have a pretty messy setup for our default inbox message translation.  It isn't that complex, but it is a different approach to using po files, so few of the translators know how to use it.  We just have a separate directory/file for each language.  We could just keep using the same mechanism for templates, but perhaps a more complete and integrated approach would be better?

One issue is that the tool would have to extract both text/plain and text/html sub-parts and provide basically the same translation for each type.

Cheers,
 Michael