country names translations (Was: need an idea for kxkb (multiple variants UI))

[Andriy Rysin]

David Faure wrote:
> On Friday 03 March 2006 14:55, Andriy Rysin wrote:
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>> Nicolas Goutte wrote:
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>>> On Friday 03 March 2006 12:33, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
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>>>> On Thursday 02 March 2006 17:25, Andriy Rysin wrote:
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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() ???
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>>>> If you really must, you can use desktop_kdebase.po. But it would be the
>>>> first time a desktop*.po module is called directly in KDE (as there were
>>>> not meant for that).
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>>> Sorry, I have realized that you cannot do that as desktop*.po files are not 
>>> packaged for the release.
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>> Yes, that's what I found, it's there but not in release. The question 
>> would be for core people if it's ok to include desktop_kdebase.po into 
>> release, should not be too hard unless there's architectural reasons not 
>> to do it?
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> I see no problem with shipping that .po file as part of each language's translations.
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ok, I've tried to use that and realized that in desktop_kdebase.po we 
have countries in the form of:
#: l10n/be/entry.desktop:2
msgid "Name=Belgium"

while we need
msgid "Belgium"

I also found out that country names also used at least in kdepim, kivio, 
kspread, kgeography, kstars

so the question would be whether it's possible to extract country 
translations from "Name=xxx" to "xxx" into some separate file a load it 
as additional catalogue, or shall we create separate file for 
translators? As this is potentially could be reused in several places I 
think we could spare some work by unifying country names (an possibly 
other common names) translations.

Andriy