[Kalzium] KDE/kdeedu/kalzium/src

[Eloy Cuadra]

On Thursday 21 July 2005 19:01, Carsten Niehaus wrote:
> On Thursday, 21. July 2005 06:48 pm, Eloy Cuadra wrote:
> > Yes, it works. But, is it safe? Is it possible to put a variable as the
> > first argument in a i18n() function?
>
> Hehe, I know what you mean. But yes, that is the way to do it. The problem
> is that we are loading from xml. The xml-code is parsed with a "nice"
> sed-script (see Makefile.am) to a temporary .cpp-file. This is parsed with
> xgettext so that the stuff is found in the .pot und .po-files.
> Now, on runtime, the i18n() compares the content of the variable with the
> internal strings (those available for translation). Only if a match is
> found it will substitute with the translated string even though there is no
> fix string (only the variable).
> Strange but works :) KDE's blackmagic.

Yes, I know that. In fact, my patch was only a trick to avoid an i18n() call, 
and it was based on i18n() internal code, just thinking on avoid problems 
when running xgettext. But if it's safe to do that, I see no problem :)

-- 
Eloy Cuadra
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