I've started to patch gnucash to use gettext for internationalization.
There are some design problems.
1- Currently, for all languages, there is a file messages_<lang>.h. in
which messages are defined by macros. But xgettext (used to extract
translatable strings from sources) doesn't take preprocessor
directives in to account. According to me there are 2 solutions:
* the standard way: we can replace all macros in sources by the
corresponding strings marked as translatable (with directive _).
i.e. ACC_CODE_STR will be replaced by _("Account Code")
* the simplest way: we can produce a pseudo C file from
message_en.h and apply xgettext on it.
I prefer the first solution but it implies to change all files that
include translatable strings.
2- Strings in messages_nolang.h are translatable strings concated with
colons or elipses. With gettext, strings are no longer constant and
is impossible to concat such strings with colon at compile time.
I propose to add two functions (with_colon, with_elipse). All
macros in messages_nolang.h will be replaced as follow:
ACC_CODE_C_STR -> with_colon(ACC_CODE_STR)
or with_colon(_("Account Code"))
I wish I was clear enough. A temporary patch is available for testing at
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/jl.pelecq/gnucash.html
(remark: strings with colons or elipses are not translated)
Regards,
Laurent Pelecq
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