On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> A few comments about the i18n of the program Dia:
>
> Please DON'T insert extra /:es in menu entries (like "turns xx on/off").
> This creates an extra node in the menu which looks really bad.
In fact, a lot of the :'s in the code should go away as well, like for text
that gets placed to the right of a checkbox.
> Also make sure that all menu items are translated exactly the same. Since
> there are some lookups from menu-node strings in the code these must
> match exactly the definition of the menu, otherwise you'll get a lot of
> assert failures and lost functionallity.
Must be something like that wrong with the da/no translation. Gets one
assert for each of the three checkboxes in the menu (Visible grid, Snap to
grid, Toggle rulers), and a lot for just focusing on a display -- these
really baffle me.
> Menu items that are part of the same hierarchy must also have the same
> name. Look at this for instance:
> {N_("/_Edit"), NULL, NULL,0, "<Branch>"},
> {N_("/Edit/_Copy"), "<control>C", edit_copy_callback,0},
>
> This should not be translated to this:
> msgid "/_Edit"
> msgstr "/Redig�r"
>
> msgid "/Edit/_Copy"
> msgstr "/Rediger/_Kopi�r"
>
> This creates two menus, one "Rediger" and one "Redig�r".
Whoops, my bad.
> I don't use i18n myself, so i can't really check these kinds of things,
> but i tried some translations today (da and no) and they had these kinds
> of problems.
>
> Some other i18n problems have been fixed too, and i'll release a new
> version (0.41) on next tuesday (when i'm back from a trip) with working
> i18n. If you have time, please check your translations.
Such as that the right-button menu isn't translated at all?
Oh, and what about the _'s? Does it cause any confusion to use different
letters for hotkeys? Like:
#: app/menus.c:209
msgid "/_Objects"
msgstr "/_Objekter"
#: app/menus.c:215
msgid "/Objects/_Ungroup"
msgstr "/Objekter/_Afgrupp�r"
-Lars
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