Re: localedir, plugin text domain names

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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

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