Re: Translating

[Bruno Haible]

Hi,

Jabier Arraiza wrote:
> Hi, Im a developer and in my company make python/glade programs for non
> english software. Also deploy on the Inkscape proyect.
> 
> After 5 days working on a multilingual program without english I want y
> give one or realy 2 ideas for xgettext:
> 
> --checksumId ## set original text as translator comment and
> checksum/hash id thath need to be ASCII
> 
> and for gettext:
> 
> --checksumedId ...
> 
> This help a lot to not need much english to develop/read code for
> example in "specialiced" programs.
> 
> I dont need to do this for my current proyect, I manualy parse the pot
> and po files so I get what I want, but too bad and error prune with lot
> of regex and time spent.
> 
> I use [a-zAZ09_] regex for the id that seems more descritive than a
> checksum (note can be repeated, I baypass this, badly, cleaning duples
> on post process)

I don't understand what you mean. Can you please describe in more detail:

1) What is the problem to be solved / goal to be achieved?

2) Have you investigated whether this goal can be achieved by use of
   the existing PO file manipulation programs (msgcat, msgcomm, msgattrib,
   etc.)?

3) In the way you imagine it: What does the programmer do differently than
   described in the documentation? What does the translator do differently?

Bruno