Am Son, 2001-10-07 um 19.34 schrieb 1002476057:
> Prof: Seriously here... are you a translator?
It's not my job. Though you can imagine that I have some experience in
this area as I'm the one who introduced localisation to the GIMP and
wrote a big part of the first translation for it. I did this several
times with other applications as well so I know both the problems
of the implementation and the translationside. Should I mention that
not even the tools worked properly back then and fuzzy translation
was just a dream?
> I think you need to
> consider the experience that menthos has with this situation. If we
> consider what we might end up with in the future (many more tips, more
> complicated tips, more languages), it makes sense to plan po right now.
I'm never planning for now but always for the future. gettext and po
files are a dead end for modular applications because they only behave
well for monolithic and small applications; both of which GIMP
definitely isn't and for sure even less will be in the future.
I like the idea of the XML tip-files with the xml-i18n-tools which will
transform between XML and .po for now because it's a good idea for the
future and as soon as the translators see the deficiencies of .po
and/or new good tools for XML files we can easily ditch them and
go for the right thing(TM).
--
Servus,
Daniel
