On 9/13/06, David Lodge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This does lead to an interesting question though. gok has a selection of > strings for extra characters on the keyboard, which may or may not exist, > these are given a context. Translation of the first few levels is easy, as > this is the normal lower case, upper case, symbols etc., but gok provides > two extra levels (with a context) to allow extra characters. For en_GB > this means that whence the context is removed the strings are empty. > > So I'm now getting "untranslated" strings on gok. (well only one as I > added the Euro symbol to level2 :-) Any idea of how these strings should > be translated?
That depends on how gok handles it. If transating it into anything would adversely affect gok's behavior, I'd suggest not translating it. Abel > > The strings from the .po file: > #. Not used in C locale: this string can contain a third set of characters > #. * at another 'shift level'. It can be used to provide a > second/alternate > #. * glyph/character set for the locale, separately or in conjunction with > #. * 'level 3'. At the translator's discretion, accented characters can be > #. * placed here and in 'level 3' as well. > #. > #. > #. * Seldom-used or alternate characters can appear in levels 2 and 3 if > necessary. > #. > #: ../gok/gok-keyboard.c:877 ../gok/gok-keyboard.c:933 > msgid "level 2|" > msgstr "level 2|" > > #. For locales which need an even larger character set, or offer uppercase > versions > #. * of the 'level2' characters, add them to 'level 3' > #: ../gok/gok-keyboard.c:880 ../gok/gok-keyboard.c:934 > msgid "level 3|" > msgstr "level 3|" > > Thanks > > dave > -- Abel Cheung (GPG Key: 0xC67186FF) Key fingerprint: 671C C7AE EFB5 110C D6D1 41EE 4152 E1F1 C671 86FF -------------------------------------------------------------------- * GNOME Hong Kong - http://www.gnome.hk/ * Opensource Application Knowledge Assoc. - http://oaka.org/ * My own cave: http://me.abelcheung.org/ _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
