Derek Atkins schrieb:
Previously in cases like this we'd dome something like:
_("placeholder account:P")+20
to represent this.
Yes, we had that, and 80% of the translators messed it up in the first
round, and 40% still in the second round.
I'll note that [2] has the similar restrictions, and we could just
as easily implement it as it currently stands as:
strchr(_("placeholder account:P"))+1
... except that 1. a ":" does appear in normal string and as such
doesn't indicate something unusual here, whereas "|" doesn't appear in
any normal string (at least not in gnucash -- it was chosen for Q_() for
a reason), so at least it's more obvious that this is not one single
normal string, 2. "|" is the suggested solution to those cases in the
gettext() manual, 3. as I said "|" with Q_() is the suggested solution
from gtk2.4 onwards.
Gee, I fought [3] hard [4] enough [5] during 2001-2003 to convince the
responsible people to include it in gtk, so that there *will* be gnome
standard for this. We shouldn't easily throw away that...
That said, unfortunately I just found this message [6] which says that
gettext will provide a solution for that, but only in yet another
different, incompatible way. That sucks royally.
Christian
[1]
https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2005-October/014236.html
[2] http://www.gtk.org/api/2.6/glib/glib-I18N.html#Q-:CAPS
[3] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-i18n/2001-September/msg00108.html
[4] http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=6369594
[5] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97556#c21
[6] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-i18n/2005-December/msg00087.html
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