On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 15:54 -0500, His Divine Shadow wrote:
> Uttered "Paul W. Frields" <stickster@xxxxxxxxx>, spake thus:
>
> > I believe (or, if you like, "see the light") that this file needs to
> > return to the locale whence it came, to make translation easier for our
> > most excellent cadre of volunteers. If its contents appear in the
> > PO/POT files, it's one less annoying FDP-specific step they have to
> > remember or take.
>
> As the person who put the rpm-info.xml file in the ${PRI_LANG}
> directory, cough cough, I think this is a good idea ;-) When we
> agreed to move this up to the document's base directory, I didn't
> disagree because the translatable elements in that file are each
> given their own "lang=foo" attribute.
Yeah, this was before we entered the I18N/L10N era and saw the Brave New
World of Translation.
> Stupid me.
"Who is more fool, the fool or the fool who follows him?" ;-D
> This arrangement makes it almost impossible to generate the
> boilerplate texts in a locale-specific manner. Not knowning much
> about the ".desktop" files and such, you know.
[...snip...]
> > Comments welcome and appreciated. Silence gives consent. Absence makes
> > the heart grow fonder.
>
> You wanna take a stab at this or do you want me to? I'd recommend
> that we revisit the DTD and remove all the "lang=foo" attributes to
> avoid downstream confusion.
My thoughts exactly. Hmm... I just got a few new tasks added to my
plate for the Board, so *if you have time* (which I know is a big "if"
right now) I know it would take you less time to get it right. If you
don't, I have some time to flail at this next week -- same routine, I'll
send you a patch to look at.
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