Re: gettext with non-en source language

2006-09-26 Thread Christian Perrier
> I am particularly thankful that I only saw one reply criticising the > non-use of English ;-) MJ, you educated all of us very well..:-) signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: gettext with non-en source language

2006-09-26 Thread Jean-Christophe Helary
On 25 sept. 06, at 17:38, Eugeniy Meshcheryakov wrote: There is also problem for translators, they cannot work in usual way, more of them understand English than Esperanto. Which is obviously not the issue here. The issue is: how to allow translators to work with the gettext tools from a la

Re: gettext with non-en source language

2006-09-26 Thread MJ Ray
I thank everyone for the replies to this query. I think the situation is that the source code language is not English - that is, the programmer community has various first languages and generally knows Esperanto to a sufficient standard, but not English. I suspect this may be an increasingly

Re: gettext with non-en source language

2006-09-26 Thread Javier SOLA
Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting MJ Ray ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Question raised on -l10n-esperanto recently: can gettext be used for localising a program with a utf-8 non-English source language? That is, the thing in the _("...") has accents and isn't English. I hope I expressed the question

Re: gettext with non-en source language

2006-09-26 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On 9/26/06, Clytie Siddall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As has been pointed out, this facility is badly needed for countries in South America, Africa and the former Soviet Union, and would undoubtedly facilitate localization and improve its quality in many other countries as well. As I understand

Re: gettext with non-en source language

2006-09-26 Thread Clytie Siddall
To: Deb18n Cc: TP, Pootle On 25/09/2006, at 5:49 PM, MJ Ray wrote: Question raised on -l10n-esperanto recently: can gettext be used for localising a program with a utf-8 non-English source language? That is, the thing in the _("...") has accents and isn't English. I hope I expressed the qu

Re: gettext with non-en source language

2006-09-25 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting MJ Ray ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Question raised on -l10n-esperanto recently: can gettext be used for > localising a program with a utf-8 non-English source language? That is, > the thing in the _("...") has accents and isn't English. > > I hope I expressed the question adequately. The gett

Re: gettext with non-en source language

2006-09-25 Thread Eugeniy Meshcheryakov
25 вересня 2006 о 14:17 +0300 Eddy Petrişor написав(-ла): > On 25/09/06, Eugeniy Meshcheryakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >25 вересня 2006 о 09:19 +0100 MJ Ray написав(-ла): > >> Question raised on -l10n-esperanto recently: can gettext be used for > >> localising a program with a utf-8 non-Eng

Re: gettext with non-en source language

2006-09-25 Thread Eddy Petrişor
On 25/09/06, Eugeniy Meshcheryakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 25 вересня 2006 о 09:19 +0100 MJ Ray написав(-ла): > Question raised on -l10n-esperanto recently: can gettext be used for > localising a program with a utf-8 non-English source language? That is, > the thing in the _("...") has accent

Re: gettext with non-en source language

2006-09-25 Thread Eugeniy Meshcheryakov
25 вересня 2006 о 09:19 +0100 MJ Ray написав(-ла): > Question raised on -l10n-esperanto recently: can gettext be used for > localising a program with a utf-8 non-English source language? That is, > the thing in the _("...") has accents and isn't English. If string has accents it probably will not