Re: [Gaim-i18n] [ gaim-Translations-1599377 ] Non-ASCII characters in gtk/gtkaccount.c

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

Sean Egan wrote:
> Would it be ok for me to replace the arrow character with %s, and not
> make the arrow character translatable, then?
Yes and no. Technically it's ok to wrote something like

    printf(_("You can come back to this window to add, edit, or remove "
             "accounts from <b>Accounts %s Add/Edit</b> in the Buddy "
             "List window"), "⇨");

But it may be no good i18n style. And, a translator with a font without 
"⇨" also can's see "⇨" in the source code...

What about a post-processing function like this?

    /* make_nice_arrows replaces "->" with "⇨*" */*
    make_nice_arrows(_("You can come back to this window to add, edit, 
or remove "
             "accounts from <b>Accounts -> Add/Edit</b> in the Buddy "
             "List window"));
   /* Result (English): "You can come back to this window to add, edit, 
or remove "
             "accounts from <b>Accounts ⇨ Add/Edit</b> in the Buddy "
             "List window" */

Greetings,
Björn