[etoys-dev] Re: Need for translation in DrGeo

[Korakurider]

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
> Am 17.05.2010 um 18:37 schrieb Korakurider:
>>
>> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 4:05 AM, Ricardo Moran <richi.moran at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> What is the usage of #translatedNoop currently? I see that it has an empty
>>> implementation so I guess it's just used to mark strings but when are those
>>> strings translated?
>>   Yes, #translatedNoop is just marking string as translatable and let
>> GetTextExporter2 extract the string to POT.   Actual translation occur
>> only in #translated.   See "4.7 Special Case of Translatable Strings"
>> in http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html.
>>
>>> I don't understand what you're saying about each string knowing its domain
>>> by marking it #translatedNoop.
>>   The crazy idea was ...
>>   Currently method body of #translatedNoop is empty.  But in the
>> method translation domain for the string could be decided with sender
>> of #translatedNoop and could be stored in receiver string.
>
> Now that indeed *is* a crazy idea ;)
> I have a simpler one:
>
> First try to look up the domain in the sender of #translated, as usual. Then, if the phrase was not found there, look in all the other domains.
>
> That should keep all existing translations working.
   Yes, it works like **current** implementation;
   But if multiple domains has same translatable string and
translations are different among domains, result of translation cannot
be deterministic.

/korakurider

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