Re: [aspell-devel] lines for translators

[Jose Da Silva]

On August 23, 2004 06:40 pm, Kevin Atkinson wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Kevin Atkinson wrote:
> > On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Jose Da Silva wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I'm reading through the program code and seem to find these lines
> > > throughout the programs....
> > >
> > >  /* TRANSLATORS: ....... translated. */
> > >
> > > or similar.... which implies you are trying to make aspell somewhat
> > > language friendly.
> > >
> > > Would you accept a patch that sort of seperates this which may make it
> > > easier for the translators?
> > > I'm thinking of bundling everything in one area per program... if you
> > > like the idea, I'd try it on a program and send a sample diff.txt
> > > file.
> >
> > Why?
> >
> > All the strings which need to be translated are gatered in the
> > gathered.pot
>
>                                                                 
> ^aspell.pot
>
> > file in the po/ directory.

Thanks, now that you describe that, I learned a little more.
I misread the various printf() and puts() as hard-coded absolutes, so your 
point does help.... which is it translates only where it is important.

I opened up KDE under english and another session under another language plus 
set the appropriate aspell-settings in the components... KDE does show the 
correct questions as per language... doing a terminal session was not so 
fortunate  (typed aspell -h and all help still got displayed in english) so 
I'm guessing that the printf() and puts() are hardcoded.... for example:
/prog/address@hidden

Appears I've got more reading to do to understand aspell.

------------other (misc.)---------
found a couple fixes to accumilate for the next release, nothing important 
yet, just wording...
aspell program:
README_diff.txt   <=  compiled

aspell dictionary:
README_aspell6_dictionary_english.txt   <=  choose

README_diff.txt
Description: Text document

README_aspell6_dictionary_english.txt
Description: Text document