Re: [Bitext2tmx-devel] the experimental branch works

[Mikel F. Z. <ml...@dl...>]

Dear Raymond, dear all:

> Certainly. What has been done to date is just preliminary work. Selection from
> the menus is one goal, but my intention is to make the languages selectable
> from the menu act in a dynamic way. That is, when the user starts up the app
> the listed languages will depend on the localizations available in /localization,
> and not be hard-coded into the program. It could also refresh in some manner
> so that localizations can be changed while the application is running. This would
> make localization quite easy.

Yes, I remember now.

> 
> > 
> > I will test some other things later (the help option, for instance).
> > 
> > Just talked to Susana. She is going to make a small change in her code
> > to read TMX so that it reads TMX 1.1-1.2 (lang) as well as TMX 1.4
> > (xml:lang) and writes always TMX 1.4. 
> 
> What about 1.3? The xml:lang attribute was introduced with TMX version 1.3.

OK, the idea is to accept both xml:lang and lang. Therefore, 1.3 is also
covered.

> 
> Hopefully in future this will not be set this way. The user should have a choice
> of what versions to read/write. New menuitems that can export the TMX in the 
> desired version should be added. The underlying code should be simple enough.

I agree, that is the way to go.

> 
> > 
> > Maybe some strings in Susana's piece of code would need to be translated
> > in the resource bundles.
> > 
> > Once she uploads this small change to her branch, we could consider
> > merging Raymond's UI, etc. with Susana's interim results patch. Who
> > endeavours?
> > 
> 
> > What do you think?
> 
> I will give it a try after the code is in place (merging Susana's changes into a
> working copy of my branch).

Excellent! OK then, Susana, tell us when that small change has been
done.

> 
> If you do notice any odd behavior with the IBM JVM please keep it in mind for
> addition to the documentation. Most people will use the Sun version, but you
> never know.

I have never had a problem with the IBM kit (in fact, I was surprised to
have the ghost problem I described); in fact, it is the only choice I
have on my current machine (Debian Linux on a Mac).

Best


Mikel