[xine-devel] [RFC,RFA] Translation problem

[Philipp M. H. <pm...@ti...>]

Hello!

While translating some new xine-ui options this morning, I encountered
the following problem:

At the moment, xine-ui/src/xitk/main.c:show_usage is a nightmare for
translators, because some descriptions need multiple lines to describe
and somebody split those lines at the '\n' and created several _("...")
translation-calls for them.
This is bad, since when you translate those, you need to rearrange those
lines to make them look nice when printed. So you might end up translating
"A\nB" to "B\nA". This is bad, because if "A" occurs at another
position, it gets translated to "B", which will most times wrong.

The "right thing to do (tm)" would be to concatenate those multiple
printf(_("...")) lines, which describe the same (sub-)option. This
change would require those texts to be rearragnged and retranslated
(using the old ones). So before duing it, I would like to hear the
commennts of some other developers/translators.

BYtE
Philipp
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