Re: Introducing separate strings for quick bar items

[Roland Illig <roland illig gmx de>]

Egmont Koblinger wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 08:18:20PM +0200, Roland Illig wrote:
> > What about "ButtonBar:Quit" or 
> > "ButtonBar|Quit"? This scheme would also be extensible to other special 
> > cases, like menu strings, dialog boxes, etc.
>
> Nice idea. If it gets widely used in mc, we could even introduce wrapper
> functions around _() that return a pointer skipping up to (including) the
> first separator character so that we don't have to type "strchr(s, '|') + 1"
> over and over again.

This would result in a function like this:

const char *translate_ui (const char *s)
{
    const char *result = _(s);
    if (result == s) {
        result = strchr(s, '|');
        return (result != NULL) ? result + 1 : s;
    }
    return result;
}

> I'm not sure at this moment (it's too late in the evening) whether such
> things can be done around N_(). Doesn't seem to be trivial.

It is not needed. N_ is just an indicator for gettext(1) for considering 
which strings should be translated. Finally, each string declared using 
N_ must be passed through gettext() anyway.

Roland