[Gaim-i18n] Re: Bad language in Gaim

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

Richard Laager wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 10:18 +0200, Bjoern Voigt wrote:
> > I didn't say that we should change all these strings. A comment for t=
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> > translators would be good here. The "TOC" plugin is not compiled by=20
> > default. So it's nearly useless to have to translate the TOC strings.=

>
> I'm going to repeat my question... How do we add comments for
> translators that show up in the .po files? I hear them talked about
> everywhere, but I have yet to find an example. My apologies if someone
> replied and I missed it.
>  =20
Thanks Richard for pointing this out. I think it would be a great=20
feature for gettext to have special comments which appear also in .po=20
files. IFAIK this is only possible for flags (c-format etc.).

The gettext info page says, developers should write normal C comments:

http://punt.sourceforge.net/gettext/gettext_3.html#SEC20

May be we can suggest something better for gettext. Bruno Haible (bruno=20
(at) clisp (at) org) seams to be the current gettext maintainer.

> > You may not want to hear it, but Gaim's i18n strings are much more te=
chnical compared with Kopete.
>
> If you have specific suggestions of ways to reduce the technical nature=

> of the strings without reducing their usefulness, I'd love to hear them=
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>  =20
One example: Kopete AFAIK uses the term "Host:" for all the "Auth host"=20
(AIM/ICQ), "Pager host" (Yahoo), "Server:" (Jabber), "Login server:"=20
(MSN) ... host descriptions. Of course there are technical differences=20
between Pager hosts, Login servers etc. But is this really interesting=20
for users and translators to know the differences?

Greetings, Bj=F6rn