Re: [Gaim-i18n] Untranslatable string "Title"

[Carlos <car...@ca...>]

El dom, 29-10-2006 a las 20:22 -0600, Richard Laager escribi=C3=B3:

Hi

> On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 23:49 -0400, Ambrose LI wrote:
> > Right now, this string cannot be translated into Chinese because "title=
" of a column in a list (gntstatus.c, gtksavedstatuses.c) is a completely d=
ifferent word than "title" of a person (jabber/buddy.c, novell.c).
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> > Can something be done to disambiguate the two?
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> glib's gettext, which we're using, uses the Q_() macro to do this:
> http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/glib-I18N.html#id2727054
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> However, this thread has some interesting points:
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2005-December/msg00255.html
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> However, my system (Ubuntu Dapper) doesn't have a pgettext() that I can
> find. Has the latter solution actually be implemented yet?

That's part of gettext 0.15. Ubuntu Edgy already has it as I guess
Debian's unstable does.

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> Translators: What is your take on this? Which format would work best for
> your tools?
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> If we switch, are we going to break lots of translations? It seems like
> we could fix things up with some careful sed'ing of the .po files,
> though.

I think now that official gettext has support for that feature you
should move to use it instead of use one of the existing workarounds
because, at the end, you will need to move to it anyway...


Cheers.

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> Richard
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> P.S. For the record, Ambrose LI has filed these tracker items related to
> this issue: 1586519 1586521 1586540
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