Re: Translations

[John Darrington]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 11:16:08AM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
     John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:
     
     > On the subject of translations, I've been concerned for a while about
     > the "Nick" and "Blurb" arguments to g_param_spec_* functions.  For
     > completeness, these ought to be translated, however no  user of PSPP is
     > ever going to see them.   For example "How many things can be selected".
     > They exist only for the benefit of people using Glade to create or 
modify 
     > dialog boxes.  So I think it's a waste of translators time including 
these 
     > in the pspp.pot file.
     >
     > Unless anyone has a better proposal, I suggest that we start a 
"pspp-dev" 
     > translation domain to hold these strings.  Translators need only 
translate
     > this domain if they are extremely bored.
     
     Is it really valuable to mark them as translatable if no user
     will ever see them?  I see, from a "grep", that many of them are
     not enclosed in _() anyhow.

Well no pspp user will ever see them, but a Glade user will.

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