Re: [Denemo-devel] why some menus are not translated (even if string is translated)?

[Éloi Rivard]

_label as an argument is good.

There is a bug in intltool with XML special chars (&, <, and >). I have submitted a patch and a pull request, but this hasn't been merged for the moment:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/intltool/+bug/1191978 (You can use my fork if you want until upstream accepts my patch : https://code.launchpad.net/~azmeuk/intltool/xmlfix )

Strings containing &, < and > may don't work with the current version.

I have just committed something. I think you forgot to call "_" function on labels, letting them untranslated. Can you test now ?

_ function has two features.

The first on is that it is parsed by gettext/intltool, so its static content can be translated. And only the static content, if you put some variable in _(), it won't be translated.

_("Foobar") works

char* foo = "Foobar";

_(foo) does not work

The second one is that it does translate a string (static or not) if the translation is available.

_("Foobar") works

char* foo = "Foobar";

_(foo) works too.

So, if you want a string to be translatable you may check those two things :

- It is detectable by gettext/intltool : <button _label="…

- The string is translated somewhere, using _() function. This is in my commit.

2013/10/21 Richard Shann <address@hidden>

On Mon, 2013-10-21 at 14:37 +0100, Richard Shann wrote:
> which has got the string tooltip from the file palettes.xml
> "_tooltip" property.
>
> Is that perhaps the problem - it needs to be a "_tooltip" tag ???

By which I mean that the entries currently look like this

 <button _label="^&#x1D15D;" _tooltip="Selects &#x1D15D; as the duration for inserting notes or rests" script="(d-Set0)"/>


would it work if they were like this

<button>
        <_label>"^&#x1D15D;"</_label>
...
</button>

or whatever the exact syntax is.

Richard

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