On 30 Aug 2009 at 18:12, Nicolas Vervelle wrote:
> > Hi Angel, > > This is a general problem when an English word can be translated differently > depending on the > context, since the English word is the key used for finding the translation. > Basically, this happens > because you can only create one translation for each sentence (even if the > same sentence is > used several times with different meanings). > And we also have a special situation with our 2 .pot files : if the same > sentence is in the 2 .pot > files, only one translation will be used in the application (because the Java > code can't decide > which one to use and looks for the first available translation). > > IMHO, the solution would be the following : > * Modify the Java code to remove special parts of the English sentences > when no translation > is found instead of using the entire English sentences (like removing > texts in the form > "[...]") > * Use different English sentences in the code, differentiating them with > special parts (for > example, "[View from]Top" and [Go to]Top") > In English, "[View from]Top" would give "Top", "[Go to]Top" would give "Top" > also > In Spanish, you would have translated them differently in the .po files, so > the texts should be > different. > > Do you think this solution is Ok ? It sounds good to me, if it's not difficult to implement > Could you check that we don't have English sentences with > "[...]" ? There's one using square brackets: #: org/jmol/viewer/ScriptEvaluator.java:2294 msgid "bad [R,G,B] color" So we need a different notation. Double brackets? Another option would be just to change the [view from] Top to say e.g. "Top View" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Jmol-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-developers
