Hi, There currently are some problems with localization in LyX 1.3.0cvs (as of Dec 3), which might need some fixing.
The first three concern extraction of strings from (autogenerated) sources to lyx.pot: 1. Translatable strings from xforms dialogs are not extracted to lyx.pot. The cause is that src/frontends/xforms/forms/*.C are not added to po/POTFILES.in by po/Makefile.in.in. (In 1.2.x these files were added) The attached 'forms-potfiles.patch' is a dirty hack to solve this: it makes sure the source files are autogenerated first, and then adds them to POTFILES.in. 2. At least with Qt 3.0.5, uic puts trUtf8() instead of tr() in the source files it generates, which the sed script in src/frontends/qt2/ui/Makefile.am does not replace with _() as it should. This causes the translations of dialogs to not appear when running (although translatable strings are properly extracted to lyx.pot). The attached 'qt3-trUtf8-replace.patch' fixes this, but perhaps using the -tr switch of uic would be a cleaner solution (if it works with uic from qt2). 3. Currently strings like "<page>" are extracted as-is from the qt ui files, but appear like "<page>" in the source, which makes them effectively untranslatable. Ampersand entities & are handled explicitly in po/Makefile.in, but other entities are not, which causes the problem. The rest have to do with some untranslatable strings or cosmetical issues: 4. The strings "figure", "table", etc. in the "Type" drop down box in table of contents dialog are not translatable for some reason. Navigate menu also has entries "Figure" and "Table" (perhaps also more for other types of floats), which cannot be translated. There seems to be a missing _() in the source, since adding these strings to .po did not fix the problem. These strings also are not extracted to lyx.pot, and I couldn't find where they come from. (Grepping the sources or default.ui did not reveal anything.) 5. In src/frontends/xforms/FormDocument.C some strings like "default|..." are not translated although they appear in UI. Just adding _() will likely break something, since these are copied as-is to BufferParams. 6. Xgettext guesses that the string "Select unit for width; Scale% for scaling whole image." (at src/frontends/xforms/FormGraphics.C:148) is in printf format, although it is not. Adding /* xgettext:no-c-format */ on front of it it stops msgfmt -c from complaining. By the way, is there a reason to keep po/POTFILES.in in CVS, although it is automatically generated by po/Makefile.in.in? Please CC me, if necessary, as I am currently not subscribed to lyx-devel. -- Pauli Virtanen
qt3-trUtf8-replace.patch
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