Re: meld i18n

[Stephen Kennedy <stevek gnome org>]

Hi Beniot,

Thanks for the mail! I've had almost no contact with translators for
better or for worse. Once the infrastructure was in, the translations
appeared as if by magic.

> 	i'm trying to update meld French translation and it's a lot of work
> because there are a lot of ~ strings (like _Edit or Edit, then E_dit
> (this is just an example)). And a lot of common strings are could be
> auto-translated (like File/Edit/Close/Save/About/etc).

Is there a special way to mark strings as auto-translatable?

> Some strings also show unneeded markup
> 
> #: ../glade2/filediff.glade.h:1
> msgid ""
> "<span weight=\"bold\" size=\"larger\">Some files have been modified.\n"
> "Which ones would you like to save?</span>"

It's unfortunate, but thats the only way to set attributes on strings in
glade. There is a bug filed for this issue. I could look at doing the
markup from code if the entire string is enclosed in a single span.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97061

> some are useless,
> 
> #: ../filediff.py:1334 ../findreplace.py:106
> #, python-format
> msgid "%s"
> #: ../glade2/cvsview.glade.h:1 ../glade2/dirdiff.glade.h:1
> #: ../glade2/meldapp.glade.h:3
> msgid "*"
> 
> #: ../glade2/cvsview.glade.h:2
> msgid "..."
> 
> It would be easier if some strings cleanup were done :D
> Thanks a lot

Agreed. Could you open a bug against this?

Stephen.
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