Thanks for the explanation Tobias, I wasn't suggesting you don't know how
to use gettext at all :-). I just wasn't clear on what the limitation was,
and that is now perfectly explained as always, thanks.
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Tobias Ellinghaus <[email protected]> wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 29. Oktober 2013, 14:10:56 schrieb Dimitrios Psychogios:
> > According to https://developer.gnome.org/glib/2.30/glib-I18N.html there
> is
> > a way to handle strings in enums and lists (use the N_() macro to define
> > them and then use gettext explicitly to display them in the UI, has
> anyone
> > tried this?
>
> That is not the problem at hand. I know how to use gettext. The problem is
> that the string selected there gets stored in the configuration file, and
> putting localized entries into a configuration is always a bad idea.
>
> One could think about storing the index of the selected entry instead, but
> that will break once new entries get added anywhere but the end of the
> list.
>
> So the real fix that no one felt the need to implement is to put the
> translated
> string into the list, and after confirming the dialog the code has to
> iterate
> over the possible options and compare the selected string with the
> translation
> of the current iterator position. Ugly.
> An alternative would be to not use normal drop down boxes but something
> that
> internally stores a second column with the untranslated string so that can
> be
> written out. Les ugly but takes more work to implement.
>
> If anyone feels the need to write that code please approach me (houz) in
> IRC
> and discuss it. But who knows, maybe I will feel bored myself and do it.
>
> Tobias
>
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