KDE4 proposal: Paths in i18n strings

[Jarosław Staniek]

Frans Englich wrote:

> On Monday 03 July 2006 08:00, Jarosław Staniek wrote:
>> Hello,
>> This is a result of my discussion with Chusslove Illich
>> <caslav.ilic at gmx.net> on paths for i18n strings:
>>
>> http://kexi-project.org/wiki/wikiview/index.php?KDE4TODOs_PathsInI18n
> 
> "since we're displaying a richtext,"
> 
> Does this assumption really hold?

For KMessageBoxes (and QLabel in general), yes.


> Some applications output to std/errout, and are logging. As I see it, that
> will break if an i18n call generates "<b>foo</b>". This relates to the
> KMessageHandler discussion here on k-c-d a month(?) ago.
> 
> I think it would be great if i18n was aware of what medium the string
> should be displayed in, in order to adapt in the most appropriate way.
> That would achieve the best result.
> 
> For example, imagine a compiler(KJS, Patternist, some KDevelop thingy,
> etc) outputting a message. When having a GUI, the document URI is nicely
> marked up, and identifiers are displayed in type writer front. When sent
> to a console, pretty `´-quotes are used consistently and identifiers are
> colored.
> 
> Here the simplicity of i18n shines through. If an object was used instead
> of global, static functions, it would be different. Perhaps one can have
> that too as an alternative to the i18n calls. Somehow.

Exactly, and I mentioned the logs case in the proposal:

"Posible problem: we may want to display the mesage with path to a log file or 
std(out|err}. The KLocalizedString class should know it's the case, so there 
may be aditional flag for doing this (i.e. displaying the path using " " 
characters only -- not as frequently used, so the default could be the rich 
text output). "

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