[my apologies about top posting...my mail reader sucks]
Sure, I wasn't saying there would be for sure an advantage in re-using catalogs. That's why I said it *might* be worth looking into. Just a suggestion.
I agree that a glossary should be created first. That way, translators have a common set to work with.
Just a note about string substitution. msgcat has substitution built-in, so instead of this:
.mbar.apple add command -label [format [_ "About %s"] [appname]] \
You can do this:
.mbar.apple add command -label [_ "About %s" [appname]] \
Thanks,
--brett
----- Original Message ----
From: Christian Stimming <stimming@xxxxxxx>
To: Brett Schwarz <brett_schwarz@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>; Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 2:03:54 AM
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Internationalization of git-gui
Quoting Brett Schwarz <brett_schwarz@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Also, if the message catalogs are in a common location, then it
> might be worth looking into having gitk utilize these msg catalogs
> as well.
You mean you suggest to re-use existing msg catalogs in addition to
ones that are created on our own? Well, from the i18n coordination
work in another project (gnucash) I wouldn't expect any noticable
benefit from doing so. The re-usable parts of translations are rather
limited, basically limited to the standard menu entries and some more
single-word strings (Yes/No/Cancel...). But even then re-using other
translations might already decrease the quality of your own
translation, because other translators of packages might already have
chosen a different translation for e.g. "Cancel". For that reason I
strongly suggest using one single msg catalog for one single project,
so that the translator is even able to make sure each word is
translated into the same translation throughout the project.
(I also strongly suggest creating and translating a glossary of the
important terms before starting to translate the msg catalog itself,
but that's a different issue.)
> p.s. the frink tool (http://wiki.tcl.tk/2611) is supposed to be able
> to convert -text and -label switches to use msgcat...it might be
> worth looking into, instead of manually editing git-gui/gitk
Thanks for the pointer. However, the -text and -label switches can be
found and edited rather easily by keyboard macros and such. More
important than this are some changes that are necessary in order to
obtain strings that are actually translatable, such as
- .mbar.apple add command -label "About [appname]" \
+ .mbar.apple add command -label [format [_ "About %s"] [appname]] \
and you will agree those can only be done manually anyway.
Christian
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