On Sun, 8 Jan 2006, Shaun McCance wrote: > On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 13:22 +0330, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: > > On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 12:12 -0600, Shaun McCance wrote: > > > I've just added a string to gnome-doc-utils to > > > address the RTL bug in Yelp: > > > > > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317103 > > > > > > The HTML output simply gets 'direction: rtl' set > > > in the CSS if the document is in a RTL language. > > > In order to determine which languages are RTL, > > > I've added the string 'ltr'. Just translate this > > > to 'rtl' if your language is RTL. > > > > I was wondering if you could use the same message the gtk+ uses for the > > same purpose, that is "default:LTR". It helps people who use translation > > memories, and it helps people who don't use them think "ah, it's the > > same thing as the gtk+ one". > > Well, the GTK+ version certainly seem more convulated > than mine. I mean, it has that extra "default:" there > for no apparent reason. (I'm sure there's some great > reason involving technical details inside of GTK+, but > it's certainly nothing that helps translators.)
+1. The Gtk+ message sets the default direction. There's nothing default about the g-d-u message, it sets the direction. So technically speaking, "default:LTR" is not exactly what it is. But well.. > On top of that, you *must* keep "default:" as is, or > else things break. I mean, I get regularly flamed > for doing things like that, and I've tried very hard > to make my strings robust against that sort of thing. > > #. Translate to default:RTL if you want your widgets > #. * to be RTL, otherwise translate to default:LTR. > #. * Do *not* translate it to "predefinito:LTR", if it > #. * it isn't default:LTR or default:RTL it will not work > > Whee. So devoid of GTK+ doing it this way, I'd probably > call you insane and move on with my development work. > But GTK+ does do it this way, and GTK+ is one of the big > packages that everybody translates. So maybe it would > be easier, given all that. > > I don't know. I'm not a translator. I just do what > Danilo tells me to. Danilo is my rock. > > So, translators, all of you. Do you agree or disagree > with Roozbeh's request? If the translators like that > funny string, then I'll use it. > > -- > Shaun > > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-i18n mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n > > --behdad http://behdad.org/ "Commandment Three says Do Not Kill, Amendment Two says Blood Will Spill" -- Dan Bern, "New American Language" _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
