Re: [Enigma-devel] Hungarian translation for Enigma

[Tacvek]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ronald Lamprecht" <address@hidden>
To: "Tacvek" <address@hidden>
Cc: "Juhasz Mate Lehel" <address@hidden>; <address@hidden>
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 6:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Enigma-devel] Hungarian translation for Enigma



> > Where possible we try to make that clear with comments that are 
> > automatically extracted and added to the .pot file. If possible could you 
> > point out which lines have unclear context, so that we can add additional 
> > such comments as needed?
>
> I received and answered a list of unclear contexts (like "PAR").
>
> Does gettext provide a feature to automatically extract comments for 
> translatable strings in C++ sources? I did add this feature for XML level 
> files. But for C++ sources I found no way to add comments. Just 
> translators can add comments to the individual po-files.

In C you use comments that begin "TRANSLATORS:", I assume it works the same 
for
C++. This is documented somewhere, but I did not seem to find it in the  GNU 
gettext manual.
Perhaps It is found in the GNU Coding Standards?

(There are two examples of this in the gettext manual, but they seem to have 
forgotten to introduce it. I know I read this somewhere, and I verified it 
with GNU hello.)

It may be wise to make a few small changes to po/Makevars.

The COPYRIGHT_HOLDER line causes a copyright FSF line to appear in the .pot 
files. Normally that is changed to the copyright holder of the project, or 
at least the primary copyright holder. In this case, it should probably be 
blank, as only Daniel Heck would be a good candidate for that field, but the 
field is generally intended to indicate an organization rather than an 
individual. Leaving it blank should simply cause the line to be omitted from 
the .pot file. That seems acceptable, as the translators can still add their 
own copyright statement. It should be sufficently clear that the copyright 
on the original strings may lie elsewhere.

Also it would be a good idea to add the address of this list to 
MSGID_BUGS_ADDRESS. This should cause a notice to appear at the top of the 
pot file reminding translators to contact this list if there are questions 
or problems.