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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Razvan Cojocaru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Jun 23, 2007 3:59 AM Subject: Re: Bug#422348: xchm: Make the greeting translatable To: Kartik Mistry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hello. Thanks for your continued interest in xCHM. I've already explained this to Igor: support for internationalization of HTML pages is difficult for the following reasons: 1. Moving the HTML out into the hands of the user makes it prone to HTML errors (i.e. a translator can mess up the tags). This is an obvious problem, and perhaps not the most serious one. 2. Translating a HTML page is _very_different_ from translating regular GUI stuff with gettext. Special characters have different representations under gettext than in HTML, and most non-English languages employ such characters. 3. Technically speaking, I could have left the intro screen blank. Displaying an intro page is not very much unlike displaying the home page of a CHM document. Should we go ahead and export all HTML pages of all the books xCHM displays, so that translators can translate them in their language? The patch you've just submitted is trivial. My main problem was not that it was impossible to take the HTML part out for translators, but that the HTML can easily be broken, especially by a translator used to the gettext way of handling special characters (or HTML :-)). Igor himself, who for some reason seems to have made this into a personal crusade, didn't seem to realize at the time of our direct conversation that gettextized translations don't apply to HTML directly (and note that the actual Romanian translation of the HTML code is absent from the patch). I stand by my initial decision, but I hope that this time I was better at explaining my reasons for it. I'm not comfortable with allowing translators to mess with my nice little HTML English greeting, and I will _not_ include the patch in the next (or any, for that matter) version of xCHM. But, obviously, xCHM being GPL and all that, you're welcome to maintain any number of patches you see fit for your particular Linux distribution, it's been done before. Thanks for your time. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kartik Mistry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Razvan Cojocaru" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 6:28 PM Subject: Fwd: Bug#422348: xchm: Make the greeting translatable
Hi, Is it possible to use this patch to in next xchm release, please? Patch is attached. Let me know..
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