Re: [Scilab-users] Behavior of gettext
Hello Federico,
Le 04/03/2019 à 05:58, Federico Miyara a écrit :
Dear all,
I'm trying to understand the way the localizing function gettext
works. For instance,
setlanguage('es') // Set Spanish as session language
gettext("%s: Wrong number of input arguments.\n")
produces the expected result:
%s: Número incorrecto de argumentos de entrada.\n
But
gettext("Wrong number of input arguments.")
returns the original English version
Wrong number of input arguments.
Are the elements %s and \n part of the indexed string?
Yes. The string provided to gettext() is an identifier. So changing any
single character of it then refers to another message.
You might have already had a look at the gettext page:
https://help.scilab.org/docs/6.0.2/en_US/gettext.html
How can I get a list of indexed strings?
The most frequent ones are newly listed in
--> help error_table
https://help.scilab.org/docs/6.0.2/en_US/error_table.html
For an exhaustive list, please
* Download and unzip the source code :
https://www.scilab.org/previous-scilab-versions
* In your OS file browser, from the root directory of the source tree,
select all *.pot files (roughtly 1 hundred of files)
* Edit *.pot files. They are unformatted text files. Each one gathers
all gettext messages identifiers for a native Scilab module.
Hope This Helps
Samuel
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Re: [Scilab-users] Behavior of gettext
Dear Samuel,
Thank you very much. I had read the gettext help but it is not as clear
as it should, it was not clear for me if the indexed strings were the
complete error message including the formatting details or the plain
English version within it. Now it is more clear. What is still not
cleaer is if the only use of getttext is to localize errore messages or
it is possible to localize a GUI without formatting.
Regards,
Federico Miyara
On 04/03/2019 14:29, Samuel Gougeon wrote:
Hello Federico,
Le 04/03/2019 à 05:58, Federico Miyara a écrit :
Dear all,
I'm trying to understand the way the localizing function gettext
works. For instance,
setlanguage('es') // Set Spanish as session language
gettext("%s: Wrong number of input arguments.\n")
produces the expected result:
%s: Número incorrecto de argumentos de entrada.\n
But
gettext("Wrong number of input arguments.")
returns the original English version
Wrong number of input arguments.
Are the elements %s and \n part of the indexed string?
Yes. The string provided to gettext() is an identifier. So changing
any single character of it then refers to another message.
You might have already had a look at the gettext page:
https://help.scilab.org/docs/6.0.2/en_US/gettext.html
How can I get a list of indexed strings?
The most frequent ones are newly listed in
--> help error_table
https://help.scilab.org/docs/6.0.2/en_US/error_table.html
For an exhaustive list, please
* Download and unzip the source code :
https://www.scilab.org/previous-scilab-versions
* In your OS file browser, from the root directory of the source
tree, select all *.pot files (roughtly 1 hundred of files)
* Edit *.pot files. They are unformatted text files. Each one
gathers all gettext messages identifiers for a native Scilab module.
Hope This Helps
Samuel
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Re: [Scilab-users] Behavior of gettext
Le 06/03/2019 à 00:56, Federico Miyara a écrit :
Dear Samuel,
Thank you very much. I had read the gettext help but it is not as
clear as it should, it was not clear for me if the indexed strings
were the complete error message including the formatting details or
the plain English version within it. Now it is more clear. What is
still not cleaer is if the only use of getttext is to localize errore
messages or it is possible to localize a GUI without formatting.
gettext() is used to register and translate any message: warnings,
menus, titles, etc etc. Whatever you want. Just edit .pot files : The
sources files where the messages are registered (so gettext("...") is
called) are all indicated, in Scilab files, in files in C, C++..
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Re: [Scilab-users] Behavior of gettext
Dear All,
I try to get this error message translated:
msprintf(gettext("%s: Argument #%d: Vector expected.\n"), "bandfilter", 1)
Any idea of what's wrong?
This one works fine:
msprintf(gettext("%s: Wrong number of input arguments: %d to %d
expected.\n"), "bandfilter", 2, 4)
Both messages were taken from the error_table documentation.
Federico Miyara
On 06/03/2019 18:02, Samuel Gougeon wrote:
Le 06/03/2019 à 00:56, Federico Miyara a écrit :
Dear Samuel,
Thank you very much. I had read the gettext help but it is not as
clear as it should, it was not clear for me if the indexed strings
were the complete error message including the formatting details or
the plain English version within it. Now it is more clear. What is
still not cleaer is if the only use of getttext is to localize errore
messages or it is possible to localize a GUI without formatting.
gettext() is used to register and translate any message: warnings,
menus, titles, etc etc. Whatever you want. Just edit .pot files : The
sources files where the messages are registered (so gettext("...") is
called) are all indicated, in Scilab files, in files in C, C++..
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Re: [Scilab-users] Behavior of gettext
Hello,
Le 12/03/2019 à 21:31, Federico Miyara a écrit :
Dear All,
I try to get this error message translated:
msprintf(gettext("%s: Argument #%d: Vector expected.\n"), "bandfilter", 1)
It may be a very recent one, not yet translated.
Samuel
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Re: [Scilab-users] Behavior of gettext
Le 12/03/2019 à 21:31, Federico Miyara a écrit :
Dear All,
I try to get this error message translated:
msprintf(gettext("%s: Argument #%d: Vector expected.\n"), "bandfilter", 1)
Any idea of what's wrong?
The long historical form is
gettext("%s: Wrong size for argument #%d: Vector expected.\n")
When some students or colleagues ask me for help, i have noticed that
quite often they did not really read the error message, and i wondered why.
Often, IMO error messages are uselessly verbosy. This is why i proposed
a series of shorter, more straightforward, and more orthogonal ones.
Samuel
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Re: [Scilab-users] Behavior of gettext
Thank you Samuel, this one does work!
I understand the verbosity issue (it's the age of SMS's and WhatsApp's).
However, the "orthogonality", in spite of being a good idea to avoid
many instances of similar messages, would be really useful if some way
to combine short messages did exist. But I'm afraid it is a very hard
problem since the way things combine in different languages may be quite
different, particularly word order.
Federico
On 12/03/2019 21:19, Samuel Gougeon wrote:
Le 12/03/2019 à 21:31, Federico Miyara a écrit :
Dear All,
I try to get this error message translated:
msprintf(gettext("%s: Argument #%d: Vector expected.\n"),
"bandfilter", 1)
Any idea of what's wrong?
The long historical form is
gettext("%s: Wrong size for argument #%d: Vector expected.\n")
When some students or colleagues ask me for help, i have noticed that
quite often they did not really read the error message, and i wondered
why.
Often, IMO error messages are uselessly verbosy. This is why i proposed
a series of shorter, more straightforward, and more orthogonal ones.
Samuel
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