#50 Allow tranlation of XML file

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We need a method to allow tranlation of XML file.

[Yann Cantin]

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You said in a French translation feat.req. comment :

"My idea is to simply generate a Python source file containing all the
texts from the XML files so it will integrate with current translation
process."

I see possibles shortcoming :

• The strings from xml tech files aren't actually gettext-ed (no _( in the code). Don't know is it's feasible.

• The .po will grow largely, this may slow down the UI (i don't know how well gettext scale)

• break the code/data separation (i know, this one is purely formal :) )

On the other hand, having localized Rules dir could be problematic : need more logic to include the right one (if any), synchronization, need to use another translation software to handle xml (xml2po miss the name attribute).

My 2 cents.

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[Yann Cantin]

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Doing some testing, i run into a problem :

I've translated some tech desc (in TL1.xml), including the name attribute, and the gui crash with :

File "/home/yann/.ospace/coyote.ysoft.org_9080_client_/ige/log.py", line 95, in debug
print str(item),
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 16: ordinal not in range(128)

The code (at least in the logger) isn't utf8-proof for the techtree portion.

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