[Gaim-i18n] Search comment for Jabber is not translatable

[Bjoern V. <bj...@cs...>]

Hello!

I found that the search comment for Jabber user search is not
translatable.

Please take a look at the attached screen shot.

I made this screen shot using the following steps:

* Jabber account at jabber.org
* search in "Accounts -> (my jabber account> -> Search for Users..."
* "Select a user directory to search": users.jabber.org (default)
* "Search Directory"

There is an English comment "Find a contact [...] wild card searches (%)".

The code comes from src/protocols/jabber/buddy.c:
user_search_fields_result_cb()

  [...]
  if((instnode =3D xmlnode_get_child(query, "instructions")))
=09=09instructions =3D xmlnode_get_data(instnode);
  else
=09=09instructions =3D g_strdup(_("Fill in one or more fields to search "
=09=09=09=09=09"for any matching Jabber users."));
  [...]

The English text is not part of Gaim and not part of the Jabber daemon
(searched in jabberd-2.0s10).

My Internet search resulted in the fact that the English text is part of
a Jabber configuration file:

  http://support.jabber.com/troubleshooting/know_base/jud_setup.html


How should we deal with the original English text message?

I see some possible solutions:

(1) leave it as is

(2) explain the user that this is a Jabber server comment

    (something like: _("Jabber server comment: ") + instructions)

(3) don't use the server comment, only use Gaim's own comment

(4) write a dummy translation string for this message

    (something like=20

    char *server_comment_dummy=3DN_("Find a contact [...] wild "
                                 "card searches (%)");
    if(instructions =3D=3D=3D server_comment_dummy)=20
       instructions2=3D_(server_comment_dummy);
    else
       instructions2=3Dinstructions;

    of course this is pseudo code, not C)

    This only makes sense, if the server search comment is more or less
    a standard comment.

(5) inform the Jabber maintainers about the problem

I would prefer (2), may be in combination with (4) but let's discuss it.

The missing i18n markers in the search results dialog are already
reported in=20

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=3Ddetail&aid=3D1458542&group_=
id=3D235&atid=3D713922

Greetings, Bj=F6rn