Re: [Gramps-devel] Translation

[Don A. <dal...@us...>]

On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 21:03, Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 09:26:57PM +0200, Bernd Schandl wrote:
> > 
> > Should this really be a translatable string?
> > 
> > #: GenericFilter.py:763
> > msgid "class"
> > msgstr ""
> 
> No, if you look at the code that is referenced here is that we are
> trying to translate the results of looking up the key 'class' in a
> dictionary.  It looks to me like the tool that is generating the
> template.po is getting too aggressive.
> 
>             name = _(attrs['class'])
> 

This translation won't work. Class won't get translated, the runtime
value of attrs['class'] will.

> But anyway, I'd like to redesign the XML that filters are stored with anyway,
> so that you could have a file that looked something like this:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
> <filters>
>   <filter>
>     <name lang="en_US">Roquefort</name>
>     <name lang="fr_FR">Roquefort</name>
>     <comment lang="en_US">Cheese</comment>
>     <comment lang="fr_FR">Fromage</comment>
>     <and>
>         <rule class="Has a name">
>             <arg value=""/>
>             <arg value="Roquefort"/>
>             <arg value=""/>
>             <arg value=""/>
>         </rule>
>     </and>
>   </filter>
> </filters>
> 
> I think that something like this will be needed for when I put
> together a set of system filters, but this may make life harder for
> translators as they'll have to look multiple places to make
> translations.  But I can't think of a better way to do it using the
> standard gettext methods.

I'm not particularly fond of making the translators go through multiple
files. Their job is hard enough as it is.

Don

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