[Scummvm-devel] Proposal for translation

Eugene Sandulenko sev at scummvm.org
Sun Jun 17 01:05:47 CEST 2007


On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:22:12 +0200 (CEST)
"Max Horn" <max at quendi.de> wrote:

>  So my idea is to implement the translation system as two different
> > backends, one based on gettext, for desktop usage, and another one
> > based on the po2c conversion for limited systems, so it could be
> > chosen for each platform.
> 
> That would be possible, but I would *greatly* prefer if there was
> only a single system to use -- if that's sanely possible, that is.
> Maintaining two systems like that means a lot of work.
As I understand, both full-blown gettext and po2c use same .po files.
So there will be no need to keep 2 sets of files or something.

Basically, we could use gettext tools to generate .po files, and
then po2c in all ports.


Eugene




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