> I think the second is a lot better. It allows spell-checking
> (which first alternative does not).
Spell-checking can be done on the gnucash.pot file generated from
sources.
> It avoids the elipses problem you describe
> below.
I don't see exactly what you mean. The elipses problem remains with a
centralized message file. For example , if we have the following
definitions:
#define ACC_CODE_STR "Account Code"
#define ACC_CODE_C_STR ACC_CODE_STR ":"
Then the compiler acts as if we have written:
#define ACC_CODE_C_STR "Account Code:"
But with gettext, we will write:
#define ACC_CODE_STR _("Account Code")
And ACC_CODE_STR is no longer a constant since underscore is an alias
for function gettext . Thus the compiler can't concat such strings
when compiling. I think the simplest is to write something like:
#define ACC_CODE_C_STR with_elipses(ACC_CODE_STR)
> It avoids the propagation of similar but slightly different messages
That's right.
> It avoids the loss of translation when a minor change is made in
> the native-language string.
New .po files are merged with already existing .po with msgfmt. Only
new strings or updated string have to be translated. This is true
whatever the solution is.
> It would be a step back to loose a centralized dictionary.
If you prefer centralized dictionary, I agree with you. It will be
safer and simpler to do that.
> > A temporary patch is available for testing at
> > http://perso.wanadoo.fr/jl.pelecq/gnucash.html
>
> I noticed that it includes a lot of source code in a directory 'intl'
The patch include the directory intl because it is required by the
autoconf macro AM_GNU_GETTEXT. I prefer not to change standard
tools. As far as I know internationalized packages include this
directory (as sharutils, ...). In fact, only the script intl/po2tbl
seems to be used. It generate a file cat-id-tbl.c that contains an
array with a numeric id for all strings. I didn't find the reason why
this file is generated.
If you think that this directory is too much useless I can remove it
and change the macro AM_GNU_GETTEXT.
Laurent
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