On 1/13/06, Chris Cannam wrote:
> You know, I don't think this KDE 3-argument i18n() call is working.
If only you knew how much I dislike "special" solutions like that :-/
> Most of the strings you list had already been converted. Some had been
> converted wrongly (according to the KDE header documentation) and some had
> not been converted at all, but even when I fix them and regenerate the .po
> files, the results don't look right.
>
> For example, at notationview.cpp:2121 we now have
>
> i18n("1 pixel", "%n pixels", sizes[i])
>
> The documentation in klocale.h seems to imply that this should create multiple
> translation strings, depending on the plural structure of the target
> language. (Does that sound right? Is that the recommended way to handle
> this context?)
>
> However, when I regenerate the po file, there is only one translation string
> from this area of the file, and it is:
>
> #: ../gui/notationview.cpp:2121
> #, fuzzy
> msgid "1 pixel"
> msgstr "%1 пиксел"
>
> (It's fuzzy because this is one of the strings I had to fix, so the version in
> the C++ file has changed since you last looked at it.) But the plural forms
> don't appear in the .po file at all.
Watch me as I come with Ockham's Razor in my right hand :)
It's fuzzy, because I marked it as fuzzy just 6 or 7 hors ago before
committing ru.po.
No more, no less.
There are several more plural forms related messages that I also
marked as fuzzy.
> What am I missing here? I've never been very clear on how all this actually
> works behind the scenes.
>
> I notice messages.sh has an alarming comment at the top:
>
> # To update the translations, you will need a specific gettext
> # patched for kde and a lot of patience, tenacity, luck, time ..
>
> I'm not aware that I have a specific gettext patched for kde -- I wonder what
> that actually means?
No idea either. Though I remember that one of GTranslator's developers
was rewriting intltools, because they were clumsey. At that time
Gtranslator didn't have support for plural forms and KBabel had. This
might be related.
> Anyway, I'll commit the code fixes and the new .po files, let me know if you
> have any ideas.
Yep. I will have a look at KDE's docs on plural forms this weekend,
most likely on Sunday evening and then report about my findings.
Alexandre
