Re: [Zinf-devel] Helping with ZINF

[Kristian K. <kr...@cs...>]

zinf.pot is in CVS under the po directory.

The file has a lot of strings including some very low level error
strings that probably aren't interesting to the casual user.

if any one feels like makine a language specific file, please get it
from CVS.   Currently I need a simple test file with just a few strings
translated (maybe the browsermenu.cpp strings).   Please do not
translate the whole thing, as many strings may change for two reasons.

1. Branding  : All strings that use some sort of compile time
   concatenation will be changed to "zinf", as I don't think
   this is relevant anymore and it plays havoc with the gettext 
   macros.
   Let me know if anyone thinks this should not happen.

2. printf, cout, and boost::format :
    gettext works well with printf strings and does  not
    work well with c++ lines like 

     cout << "My language " << lang << "order is different"

   The boost::format library allows the programmer to format
   in an order independent way that is even better.

   cout << boost::format("My language %1% order is different") % lang 

   which will work well with gettext.

   Unfortunately, I am having trouble with it under g++-2.95
   so the changes will be going in when it seems that g++-3.2 
   is here for good or I find a copy that compiles under 
   g++-2.95


Anybody out there just starting out with c++ and would like to get
their feet wet with these tasks?  


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Kristian G. Kvilekval
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