On Vr, 2008-09-19 at 00:01 +0200, Robert-André Mauchin wrote: > Shaun McCance a écrit : > > > > So the file looks like HTML, plus a plain text alternative, > > and a few images, all packed into an mbox file. Why can't > > we just have source HTML and PNG files, and have a script > > that automatically generated the mbox file? Then we could > > easily translate it with xml2po. > > > > -- > > Shaun > > > I was thinking that doing it at runtime would be very painful. Could we > generate theses Inbox files at build time with a simple shell script and > some gettext magic. > We should add this script into POTFILES.in, and call it during make. > > A draft is attached, but it would be good if a developer could do that > for us. > > Regards
I had something similar in mind, but started out with Python. I _think_ (but will need some confirmation) that we'll need to do a little bit more than this. Having the whole file as one unit in the PO file will make it an extremely daunting task, especially to maintain in case of a change in the English. My idea is not complete at all, but I attach it as well. You'll see a few extra goodies mentioned (some implemented), such as properly encoding the header entries, so that we have valid from and subject fields in the non-ASCII case. I also think we should try to avoid translating the HTML and plain version separately. (Guess if I'm from a small localisation team.) The basic idea is using Inbox.in as a big Python string with variables that are substituted in the strings.py program, that uses plain gettext in Python, and therefore even supports translator comments. As a bonus we could even generate the date of having a variable for the date at build time to have it current instead of static in the file. This is not yet integrated in the build system, but I guess somebody might be able to help with that. I hope it is of help somehow. Keep well Friedel -- Recently on my blog: http://translate.org.za/blogs/friedel/en/content/vrot-mango
Inbox.in
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#!/usr/bin/env python # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- # # Copyright 2008 Friedel Wolff # # This file is part of Evolution. # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. from email.Header import Header # TODO: implement to obtain the translations, either through traditional # gettext, or otherwise. This will be run at build time, so we might not want # to count on system-wide .mo files. _ = lambda t: t #TODO: put the current date in a variable so that we can use it as the sent date header = { # The sender of the email "evo_team": _("The Evolution Team"), # The addressee "evo_users": _("Evolution Users"), # The email subject "welcome_to_evo": _("Welcome to Evolution!"), } # Properly encode headers. For more information, see # http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-email.header.html for key in header.iterkeys(): header[key] = Header(header[key], "utf-8") body = { "welcome_intro": _("<B>The Evolution Team</B> is proud to welcome you to <B>Evolution</B>, a complete system for managing your communications and personal information."), "getting_started": _("Getting Started"), } def html2plain(text): # TODO: Strip HTML markup and do the text wrapping... return text # Generate the plain text equivalents for key in body.keys(): body["plain_" + key] = html2plain(body[key])
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