Re: String addition in gnome-doc-utils

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 13:22 +0330, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 12:12 -0600, Shaun McCance wrote:
> > I've just added a string to gnome-doc-utils to
> > address the RTL bug in Yelp:
> > 
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317103
> > 
> > The HTML output simply gets 'direction: rtl' set
> > in the CSS if the document is in a RTL language.
> > In order to determine which languages are RTL,
> > I've added the string 'ltr'.  Just translate this
> > to 'rtl' if your language is RTL.
> 
> I was wondering if you could use the same message the gtk+ uses for the
> same purpose, that is "default:LTR". It helps people who use translation
> memories, and it helps people who don't use them think "ah, it's the
> same thing as the gtk+ one".

Well, the GTK+ version certainly seem more convulated
than mine.  I mean, it has that extra "default:" there
for no apparent reason.  (I'm sure there's some great
reason involving technical details inside of GTK+, but
it's certainly nothing that helps translators.)

On top of that, you *must* keep "default:" as is, or
else things break.  I mean, I get regularly flamed
for doing things like that, and I've tried very hard
to make my strings robust against that sort of thing.

#. Translate to default:RTL if you want your widgets
#. * to be RTL, otherwise translate to default:LTR.
#. * Do *not* translate it to "predefinito:LTR", if it
#. * it isn't default:LTR or default:RTL it will not work

Whee.  So devoid of GTK+ doing it this way, I'd probably
call you insane and move on with my development work.
But GTK+ does do it this way, and GTK+ is one of the big
packages that everybody translates.  So maybe it would
be easier, given all that.

I don't know.  I'm not a translator.  I just do what
Danilo tells me to.  Danilo is my rock.

So, translators, all of you.  Do you agree or disagree
with Roozbeh's request?  If the translators like that
funny string, then I'll use it.

--
Shaun