On Tuesday 12 December 2006 00:01, Malcolm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/11/06, Sridhar Dhanapalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For some reason, certain GTK+ packages such as xfce-mcs-plugins have > > strings like "Button Label|Display". This is an error which will be > > displayed verbatim in the application(s) concerned. The solution is to > > remove the prefix "Button Label|" from your translated version. > > The reason for doing this is explained in the gettext manual: > > http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_chapter/gettext_10.html#SEC
That's fine, but IMHO Rosetta should be smart enough to know this and not
present an opportunity for end users to see "Button Label|<string>" strings
all over their applications. Translators should not have to think about these
things.
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it because it's difficult to find, you're in trouble. They'll find it."
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Microsoft Windows Forms team, 2005-02-04
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