On 08/18/07 11:29, Anssi Hannula wrote: > Klaus Schmidinger wrote: >> On 08/18/07 11:11, Anssi Hannula wrote: >>> I believe distribution packagers of VDR (at least myself) will want to >>> install the VDR locale files into the standard directory under >>> /usr/share/locale/, where all other locale files are. >>> >>> However, as that directory may contain lots of other locales that do not >>> have translation for VDR (or possibly only for some plugin of VDR, which >>> applies to a custom localedir as well), those show up in the OSD >>> Language selection menu as "LanguageName$English". >>> >>> Also, it could also be possible that the I18N_MAX_LANGUAGES = 256 >>> constant could be too small for some systems. I guess it could be >>> modified to limit only the locales that have VDR translation, not the >>> total locale count in the system. >>> >>>> +void I18nRegister(const char *Plugin) >>>> +{ >>>> + bindtextdomain(Plugin, I18nLocaleDir); >>>> +} >>> [...] >>>> + if (Plugin) >>>> + t = dgettext(Plugin, s); >>> Maybe it would be better to use something like vdr-PLUGIN or >>> vdr-plugin-PLUGIN? >>> >>> If the translations are installed into /usr/share/locale, the files of >>> VDR plugins could conflict with other programs that have the same name, >>> if the plugin translation files are not prefixed by anything. >> Why do you want to make things overly complicated? >> Can't we just keep it simple? > > "Keeping it simple" would be dropping the language selection completely > and using environment, as other applications do. But I guess you do not > want do that. VDR allows selecting the OSD language at runtime, so the setting of the environment is only the default. > But you mean, use a specific directory for VDR locales, like > /usr/share/vdr/locale? That's how it works at the moment. > If you do not wish to use the standard location, fine with me. However, > the "LanguageName$English" problem still applies, if there is some > directory in the VDR localedir that does not have a VDR translation, but > e.g. only for some plugin. What sense does it make to have a translation for a plugin, but not for VDR itself? Klaus _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr