Hi! On Tuesday 02 September 2014 12:58:15 meik michalke wrote: > we discussed some plans for i18n in the past, but to my knowledge we didn't > actually implement anything yet.
There is an absolutely minimal, not yet usable start in svn... [not quoting all detail] > what do you think? worth a try? For rkwarddev-based plugins, I guess this is a very interesting option. But I don't think it can become "the" approach to translation in the long run. Quite possibly worth a try for the time being, though. I see two basic problems: 1. Ok, when a single developer creates a bi-lingual plugin, inlining translations in the code may actually be a very straight-forward approach. When developers and translators are different persons, and/or translators are not too familiar with programming and programming tools, things can easily get messy, e.g.: - Developer makes a change in English and German translations, but forgets to remove now out-dated Polish. - Translator does not dare to touch the file, but sends list of translated terms to Developer. Developer screws it up, confusing some strings. Having a message catalog separate from the code sounds like a good idea, here. If it's in a standard format (xgettext), this also allows to use existing translation tools and translation infrastructure (such as launchpad). This may or may not be easy enough to change/add? 2. On the level of "hand-made" (non rkwarddev) plugins, having separate files means, any fix to a plugin would require fixing all localized versions, diligently. Obviously, that's just asking for trouble... For this reason, RKWard really needs to be able to load and use (compiled) message-catalogs at runtime. This _will_ happen, but of course you'll be well advised not to hold your breath. So your current approach may be a very useful interim solution. However, once I do manage to add proper i18n support inside RKWard, most of your code will become obsolete (work done on translations would not be wasted, though). So that makes it a question of how much more work you'd have to put in to it. Regards Thomas ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ _______________________________________________ RKWard-devel mailing list RKWard-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rkward-devel
