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Re: Website translation


From: Ricardo Wurmus
Subject: Re: Website translation
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 14:59:42 +0200
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Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:

> As long as we use xgettext, we have to stick to a format-string-like
> approach like what sirgazil proposes.
>
> Writing a custom xgettext kind of tool wouldn’t help much because
> gettext is fundamentally text oriented: you give it a string and it
> returns a string.
>
> So I think the alternative is:
>
>   • use gettext, and in that case stick to a format-string-like
>     mechanism, or:
>
>   • use a completely new tool that would be able to consume and produce
>     sexps (trees).
>
> The latter doesn’t seem reasonable to me.  :-)

I’m not sure I understand the problem well enough, but there seems to be
a middle way: using itstool with XML.  When you squint really hard XML
is close to S-exprs.

--
Ricardo




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