Re: Tools to help with mnemonic l10n?

[Kenneth Nielsen <k nielsen81 gmail com>]

On 20-01-2012 17:14, Shaun McCance wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-01-20 at 11:12 +0100, Kenneth Nielsen wrote:
> > On 19-01-2012 17:52, Johannes Schmid wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > > To try and keep the ball moving on this, I have made a feature request
> > > > bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/intltool/+bug/918622 in the intltool
> > > > project (which is used to extract the strings and put them in po-files.)
> > >
> > > I think it would be better to file a bug against its-tool since it is
> > > definitly the more actively developed project when it comes to
> > > extracting strings from xml files.
> >
> > Ahh, that was what I was writing about earlier, about whether or not
> > there was a competing tech. It even looks like its-tool is python, which
> > makes it somewhat more probable that I can lend a hand with it.
> >
> > But which tool is actually used for the projects on GNOME?
>
> intltool is used for GtkBuilder files right now. itstool is not
> necessarily a suitable replacement for intltool for all XML files.
> intltool is more suitable for XML files that are catalogs of data,
> where you want to produce a single final XML file with all of the
> translations. itstool is more suitable for XML documents, where
> you want to produce translated copies of the files.
>
> intltool:
>    C.xml.in \
>    xx.po     \__ C.xml
>    yy.po     /
>    zz.po    /
>
> itstool:
>    C.xml \__ xx.xml
>    xx.po /
>    C.xml \__ yy.xml
>    yy.po /
>    C.xml \__ zz.xml
>    zz.po /
>
> One other thing we sometimes do with XML files (and this may be the
> case with GtkBuilder files) is just extract string out of them, but
> never merge them back. Instead, we read English strings from the XML
> and call gettext on them in C. Either intltool or itstool could do
> the job for that. There are advantages and disadvantages to each.
>
> However, in GNOME, the po directory is always managed by intltool.
> So if you want to use itstool to manage an XML file should be part
> of the primary translations (as opposed to a separate document),
> what you have to do is have itstool manage a pot file as part of
> the build, add that pot file to git, and let intltool work from
> that. That's what yelp-xsl and yelp do for XML translations.
>
> --
> Shaun

Hallo Shaun

Thanks for clearing that up. I'll keep my bug for intltool open and hope 
that someone is willing to implement it.

Regards Kenneth