country names translations

[Nicolas Goutte]

On Wednesday 15 March 2006 22:00, Andriy Rysin wrote:
> Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> >On Monday 06 March 2006 02:54, Andriy Rysin wrote:
> >>David Faure wrote:
> >>>On Sunday 05 March 2006 19:07, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> >>>>For KDE3, you surely can prepend "Name=" to the string and remove that
> >>>>name later after the translation is returned.
> >>>
> >>>Yes, that's what I was thinking about.
> >>
> >>There's little problem with that: currently in xorg 6.8.2 and earlier
> >>the name for layout would be "Ukrainian" but in xorg 6.9.0 and later
> >>it'd be "Ukraine"
> >>And I don't think doing this something like the code below is acceptable:
> >>if( xorgVersion >= 690 )
> >>    translation = i18n( layoutName.prepend("Name=") ).remove("Name=");
> >>else
> >>    translation = i18n( layoutName );
> >
> >// Get translation
> >translation = i18n( layoutName );
> >if ( translation == layoutName )
> >{
> >  // Not translated? Try harder with a country name:
> >  translation = i18n( layoutName.prepend("Name=") ).remove("Name=");
> >}
>
> that's ugly, slow and non-reliable

Well, we are in the middle of KDE 3.5.x, we have tocome up with compatible 
solutions, not with the most elegant ones. (Elegancy is for KDE4.)

> how about the case if translation==layoutName in realLife ???

There would not be a translation of the "country" name.

> in best case we impact performance, in worst we pick up wrong translation

If you have an additional PO file, it would pick the "wrong" translation too.

>
> >>I'd rather create new *.po file with country names extracted from
> >>kdebase_deskto.po and then insertCatalog() it leaving all i18n code as
> >>it is now.
> >
> >The translators would not welcome again a PO file with country names.
> > (There
>
> this will not be PO file for translation, this will be smth. like
> geo_common.po generated from kdebase_dekstop.po by removing "Name=" ...
> (for 3.5) or separate file for common things (like geographies) in KDE4.

And how do you want to generate it in KDE 3.5.2? In the release script? And 
who will control the result?

As for KDE4, the problem is another and has to be solved in the general 
problem of duplicate country and language name translation.

>
> >are already many PO files containing some country names.)
>
> that's what I am trying to get rid of - it'd be nice to have common
> translation for common things.

We have not that luxury in KDE 3.5.x.

> AFAIK there's no such thing currenlty.
> The country translation is duplicated (in non-reusable way because of
> "Name=" prefix) in kdebase_desktop.po and some non-kdebase packages

That is why I do not see why we would another PO file in KDE 3.5.x.

>
> >>It'll be cleaner and faster solution.
> >
> >I do not think so.
>
> arguments?

A new PO file is not cleaner and not faster (except perhaps at runtime).

Have a nice day!