[Kbabel] Fwd: gettext and contexts

[Nicolas Goutte]

On Friday 21 October 2005 21:07, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> On Friday 21 October 2005 13:37, Bruno Haible wrote:
> > Chusslove Illich wrote:
> > > Anyway, thinking in this direction, 3.5 KBabel is feature frosen, but
> > > what exactly constitutes a feature freeze? I had this idea: currently,
> > > if the msgid_plural comes, the msgid pane is going to split into two
> > > tabs to show both ...
> >
> > Well, if you say that KBabel 3.5 is feature frozen, for the moment we
> > should perhaps try a patch that doesn't affect the GUI at all.
> >
> > Here is an attempt on this, touching only the input and output filters.
> > Patch relative to on kdesdk-472179. Completely untested, since I don't
> > have the right environment for compiling and testing KDE programs.
> >
> > Also attached are two sample PO files with msgctxt in it.
>
> I have committed the patch (fixing the compile error) and then I have made
> a few change to it:
> - fix saving
> - loading multiline contexts
> - improve code (by using QString::mid and QString:.truncate)
>
> The saving is still a problem.
>
> As the variable comment is a QString and not a QStringList, ^ cannot be
> used in the QRegExp. Also the code still assume that it is the last
> comment. (If the user has added a comment, the context is corrupted.
>
> Also perhaps the special comment should be named something with KBabel to
> really show that it is KBabel who has added the special comment. (Not that
> translators knowing the PO file format badly would start to assume that it
> is a new feature of the PO file format.
>
> (Also as expected msgfmt annoys, as it complains errors on each contexts at
> save. But that is more cosmetic compared to implement the Gettext context
> support, as with an old msgfmt, we will never be able to check the new PO
> file format, whatever we do.)
>

> So the next important step would be to add teh support to the PO loading
> code for the catalog manager.

I have now added code for the second PO loading code 
(kdesdk/kbabel/common/poinfo.cpp and related files.)

>
> > Bruno
>
> Have a nice day!
>
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