Re: Translation of words between inverted commas

[Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net>]

Le jeudi 10 janvier 2008 à 10:40 +0100, Gabor Kelemen a écrit :
> Jorge González González írta:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I was translating libgnome and I had a doubt, how should we translate
> > strings like:
> > 
> > #: ../schemas/desktop_gnome_interface.schemas.in.in.h:32
> > msgid "Size of icons in toolbars, either \"small-toolbar\" or
> > \"large-toolbar\"."
> > 
> > 'Cos sometimes I've seen the words between the inverted commas
> > translated and others not. Should I open a bug in bugzilla?
> > 
> > Thanks and cheers.
> 
> This is not a bug, and you should not translate them. As you can see, 
> such strings are coming from schemas.in files, which means they will 
> show up in the gconf-editor as descriptions of gconf keys. The quoted 
> strings are the possible values of the keys, and can't be translated, 
> because gconf understands them only in their original form.

A translator comment would be welcome, but unfortunately comments in XML
schema files seems not to be supported by intltool.

See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=393606

Claude