[Moin-devel] Re: Patch for l10n of notification

[Juergen Hermann]

On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 11:51:28 +0100, Lele Gaifax wrote:

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>a) I missed the proper way to extract the _('') strings to put in the
>   master set of messages. Is there an automatic tool? I saw the
>   _sync.py and _check.py...

synch copies from the master set (de.py by default) to all other 
languages. check checks for untranslated msgs. the master is extended 
automatically when config.check_i18n is true.

Read i18n/__init__.py for details.

>b) If exists, maybe it would be nice to change it a little to emit
>   also the location in the sources where each message is used: this
>   makes it easier for the translators to find an appropriate national
>   idiom when "the context matter"...

Using gettext.py gives you that for free, and using gettext.py is just 
a developer time problem.



Ciao, Jürgen

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