Re: [Cdk-jchempaint] localization

[Stefan K. <ste...@eb...>]

does that mean I simply drop the english language files and put the phrases 
directly into the file?
Stefan

On Monday 19 January 2009 16:06:51 Egon Willighagen wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Stefan Kuhn <ste...@eb...> wrote:
> > On Monday 19 January 2009 15:05:59 Angel Herraez wrote:
> >> It is much easier for translators
> >> if you see the English. (That's the way it works in Jmol, and there
> >> is no en.po file there; the call for localization includes the
> >> English phrase rather than a key)
> >
> > Hm, that could be done, I suppose. I thought it's a bit add to have sort
> > of sentences as keys, but why not?
>
> I think that was the original idea of gettext... I was already
> wondering all developers were supposed to translate string into
> English...
>
> All .po translations on LaunchPad.net work with full strings as
> keys... I think it was intended as such.
>
> Egon



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