[Scummvm-devel] Enhancement to I18N

[Matthew Hoops]

IMO, it would be better to just use the string that was originally
translated by Cyan/Broderbund here than something thought up by our
translators (except in the rare case there is no translation of Myst/Riven
games, since they really spent a lot of time creating a myriad of
translations).

Which brings up another point: Should the string be set by game language or
the GUI language?

-Matt
On Aug 20, 2011 9:27 AM, "Eugene Sandulenko" <sev at scummvm.org> wrote:
> Hi Team,
>
> I just committed a small update to po/module.mk but which has a nice
> impact on our translators.
>
> The update adds a command line switch to xgettext for including
> comments to the .po files.
>
> Thus, if you want some explanation to accompany your string, just add
> a comment to the preceding line and tag it with 'I18N'.
>
> Example from engines/mohawk/dialogs.cpp:
>
> // I18N: Option for fast scene switching
> _zipModeCheckbox = new GUI::CheckboxWidget(this, 15, 10, 300, 15,
> _("~Z~ip Mode Activated"), 0, kZipCmd);
>
> Will result in:
>
> #. I18N: Option for fast scene switching
> #: engines/mohawk/dialogs.cpp:92 engines/mohawk/dialogs.cpp:171
> msgid "~Z~ip Mode Activated"
> msgstr ""
>
> I will go now and add some more of these, but please consider
> revisiting your engines and giving a helping hand to the translation
> team.
>
> Also my next step is to update relevant Wiki page:
>
> http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Supporting_GUI_Translation
>
>
> Eugene
>
>
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