Re: [Bashburn-info] Gettext support

[Markus K. <mar...@on...>]

Anders Lindén wrote:
> My reply to Steven was sent only to him. I'm reposting the message here.
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>> As the changes to bb start to wind down, there are new text strings 
>> creeping in and old ones that might want to change. They should be
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> handled 
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>> in less of an ad hoc manner; If I change a string now, I'm afraid
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> it'll 
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>> just leave the other languages out of sync.
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>> Which brings up a new topic... The way that we're handling the
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> different 
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>> language problems right now works but it feels somewhat unwieldy. We
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> have 
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>> strings in lang/English/somefile.lang and then we have copies of the
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> file 
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>> in lang/!English/somefile.lang . Some of the files are mostly
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> translated. 
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>> (Good job BTW.) Some languages are there in good shape, but if a
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> string 
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>> changes, I don't see a system for *knowing* that the other languages
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> have 
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>> to be followed up. Also, we have a lot of strings that are duplicated,
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> and 
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>> changing one instance begs the questions whether followup can be
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> managed.
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>> So here's the $64 question: Does anyone here have any experience with 
>> gettext/msgfmt/po files/pot files/ etc? Should we keep going the way
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> we 
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>> are? I ask this with no prior experience using pot files.
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> All experience with po files I have is that I helped translate an
> application to Swedish a bunch of years ago. I have no experience in
> actually adding support for it though.
>
> I agree with you though Steven. The translation system is sort of a
> mess. It works yes but it's kind of awkward to work with (All credit to
> me I suppose). I think it would be a good idea to look into using
> gettext. I'm sure it would make translators lives a lot easier. 
>
>   
Hm, I have just began some weeks before to check/playing and learning to 
do gettext for bashburn.
I stoped the work, because I thought it is a great thing,  but one must 
have support for gettext in the lib's of the system.
And I was not shure whether it would be worth for us to do - I thought 
at first the priority to improve bashburn functionality would be more 
interesting for the most.

But I see now the discussion here, which is interesting. What do the 
others think? Should we rely that a bashburn user has/need i18n 
(internationalization) support?

If the most agree to use gettext, i can start working and experimenting 
and to find out a strategy we can best implement gettext in bashburn, if 
it is wished.

Markus