need an idea for kxkb (multiple variants UI)

[Andriy Rysin]

Nicolas Goutte wrote:

>On Thursday 02 March 2006 09:38, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
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>>On Thursday 02 March 2006 05:30, Andy Rysin wrote:
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>>>> On Wednesday 01 March 2006 15:33, Andriy Rysin wrote:
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>>>Well there's worse problem with translation I've just discovered: the
>>>name for layouts  in XFree were adjectives (Belgian, Thai, Finnish) and
>>>in some version Xorg it's changed to nouns (Beglium, Thailand, Finland).
>>>As strings for tranlsation in KDE are still old that means almost all of
>>>layout names will be untranslated for new versions of Xorg. So I don't
>>>know if one UI string will go untraslated in some languages :(
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>>We have translations of country names already in KDE, see kdebase/l10n. The
>>problem is how to use it in kxkb. (I have no idea right now.)
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>You can look at kdebase/kcontrol/locale/kcmlocale.cpp from line 257 on, the 
>function KLocaleConfig::loadCountryList 
>(Apparently there is not any other way than to load the .entry files.)
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hmm, that means to translate list of countries I need to load (and 
parse) >200 files? Does not look like acceptable way to me :(
Can anybody tell me if its hard to have things like Country name 
translations in common *.po files so that we could reuse them with 
simple insertCatalog() ???

Thanks,
Andriy