[Kbabel] Full Gettext support in KBabel

[Nicolas Goutte]

On Thursday 20 October 2005 15:04, Stanislav Visnovsky wrote:
> Dňa Štvrtok 20 Október 2005 14:43 Nicolas Goutte napísal:
> > On Thursday 20 October 2005 13:24, Chusslove Illich wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > >
> > > What would it take for KBabel to fully support Gettext PO features?
> >
> > Well, it is quite (too) late now, as KDE 3.5 is in message freeze.
> > Therefore KBabel cannot be changed where it would matter.
> >
> > (KDE 4 will not be translated with its own KBabel but with the KBabel of
> > KDE 3.5. We had that experience already with KDE2 to KDE3 switch.)
> >
> > > Since
> > > few days ago, Gettext has full support for what we need in KDE: formal
> > > contexts (new msgctxt field) and xgettext extractor updated accordingly
> > > (will also work for overloaded ordinary, context and plural calls). So
> > > I think there is no reason to fiddle with custom stuff for KDE 4,
> > > providing that all tools are updated to handle standard Gettext POs,
> > > KBabel being primary.
> >
> > Well, it also depends how fast such a Gettext is officially released, so
> > that it can be really used.
> >
> > (Do not forget! KBabel is a tool for translators. That are not people
> > that can jump on every new software tool, either because they do not have
> > the knowledge how to compile or because downloading is cost-intensive
> > (not to say prohibitive). You can look at how many people we have lost
> > with the change from CVS to SVN.)
> >
> > > I've browsed a bit through KBabel's Gettext import/export code, and
> > > couldn't find anything explicitly left to be done, but I've been said
> > > that
> >
> > msgid_plural and msgstr_plural are not correctly handled
> > (only loaded as far as I understand the code).
>
> They are fully supported. Try one, for example gettext.po ;-)

In that case, I probably misunderstood something that you have written. :-(

So I am going to revert the KDE 3.5 feature plan on this point.

So we would need to introduce the new context in a (rather) transparent way. 
(Not sure if somebpody can do that until KDE 3.5).

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Have a nice day!