Gettext-style translations are really really bad, because they use the original text (usually in english) as a translation key, which means they simply can not handle situations where the same english text needs different translations depending on where the text is used. And yes, I have come across that issue once upon a time.
You are right that editing a dialog is annoying, but due to the way win32 resource dialogs work, it's unavoidable. Even if we could have a serpate file for reaching the translations, there's often the situation where certain languages need different layouts, or at least different control sizes, to accomodate for longer / taller text, or RTL. So even if we switched to a different system, that annoyance wouldn't go away. I do agree that it would be nice to have some nicer tool for translators, but IMO, .po files are not it. On 14 March 2017 at 23:14, Rafał Harabień <raf...@reactos.org> wrote: > In my opinion it's very sensible proposal. I remember changing dialog > layout in resources was a big pain because of amount of repeated work > for all languages (and error prone). It was demotivating. > On the other hand there are free translation platforms making project > translation more organized and easier than editing raw resources. WINE > is using PO for years and ReactOS IMO should do it as well. > Just my two cents... > > W dniu 14.03.2017 o 14:31, Ștefan Fulea pisze: > > Marți, 14 martie 2017 12:00:02 +0000, Mark Jansen > > <learn0more+...@gmail.com> a scris: > >> How about a better way to translate ros? > >> For example integrating .po files with our rc files (possibly needs a > >> preprocess step or something tho), > >> Or creating a resource editor that allows multiple files to be edited > >> at once? > >> > > Please don't push for .po resources, for these are not better. As for > > improving the process, I doubt it'd repay the investment. After the > > initial translation effort, the further maintenance requires very > > little. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ros-dev mailing list > > Ros-dev@reactos.org > > http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ros-dev mailing list > Ros-dev@reactos.org > http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev >
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