[Gimp-developer] what are the strings with the | character ?

2008-05-23 Thread Cristian Secară
There are some string containing the | character (example: tool|_Zoom)
that, when translating (example for me: unealtă|_Zoom), they appear as
is in my translated menu (like unealtă|Zoom with Z underlined).
However, in English only the Zoom part is shown.
What is this / how should I treat it ?

Cristi
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Re: [Gimp-developer] what are the strings with the | character ?

2008-05-23 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Cristian Secară wrote:
 There are some string containing the | character (example: tool|_Zoom)
 that, when translating (example for me: unealtă|_Zoom), they appear as
 is in my translated menu (like unealtă|Zoom with Z underlined).
 However, in English only the Zoom part is shown.
 What is this / how should I treat it ?

This is a contextual help.

E.g. you can have same word in two different dialogs which should be
translated differently depending on context. This matters for some
languages and doesn't matter for others. So you just read the part
before | and make up your mind how to translate the part after |
character. Then you just put to translation the part after |, dropping
the part before | character and | character itself.

Does it makes sense? :)

Alexandre
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Re: [Gimp-developer] what are the strings with the | character ?

2008-05-23 Thread Cristian Secară
On Fri, 23 May 2008 14:15:17 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:

 This is a contextual help.
 [...]
 Does it makes sense? :)

Yes, but I would have never figured out by myself :)
So physically it's a template-only thing if I understand correctly.

Ok, thank you :)

Cristi

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Re: [Gimp-developer] what are the strings with the | character ?

2008-05-23 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Cristian Secară wrote:

 Yes, but I would have never figured out by myself :)

GIMP translation is always coordinated by local GNOME translation
communities. If they do not provide basic information about such
things, they should fix it ASAP. Please let them know.

 So physically it's a template-only thing if I understand correctly.

Kind of :)

Alexandre
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Re: [Gimp-developer] what are the strings with the | character ?

2008-05-23 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi,

On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 14:06 +0300, Cristian Secară wrote:

 Yes, but I would have never figured out by myself :)

You are not supposed to figure such things out by yourself. You are
supposed to have read the guidelines for translators in the GNOME
translation project. Doesn't it include this information?

By the way, I have just done a change to trunk that converts most
(unfortunately not all, due to technical reasons) places where a
translation context was used to the new scheme using msgctxt. This makes
it easier for translators. Instead of

  #: ../app/core/gimpchannel-select.c:58
  msgid command|Rectangle Select

we now have the less error-prone:

  #: ../app/core/gimpchannel-select.c:60
  msgctxt command
  msgid Rectangle Select

Please use the msgctxt when translating. If someone wants to add more
translation contexts to the code, please send patches...


Sven


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