On Fri, 9 Jan 2009, Klaus Reimer wrote:
> Hello, > > I have a question regarding the Unit "gettext" which is used to parse a > MO file and to translate texts with this file. > > I have writte a Lazarus application which uses the DefaultTranslator > class to translate the application. This translator uses the gettext > Unit of Free Pascal. The problem is that all strings which uses a > "message context" in the PO file are not translated at all. Lazarus > automatically writes message contexts to the PO file when same texts are > used in different parts of the application. > > So my first thought was that this is a bug in the DefaultTranslator that > it does not pass the message context to the gettext unit. I was going to > add this to the DefaultTranslator unit but then I noticed that i have no > idea how to translate a text whcih uses a message context with the > gettext unit. > > So can someone tell me how to do this? According to the GNU gettext > documentation the context is prefixed to the original text separated > with an EOT character (#4). So the "orig" text in my case is this: > > 'TFORM1.BUTTON1.CAPTION' + #4 + 'Test' > > But If I pass this string to the translate method of gettext then this > also returns an empty string because the generated hash code for this > string is not found in the hash table of the MO file. > > So how can I translate texts which uses message contexts? Probably the error is in the hash code ? Does GNU gettext take the #4 into account when it generates the hash code ? Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
