[Kde-games-devel] kde game and i18n

[Kleag]

Hello,

I don't know how to handle i18n in network mode for my game KsirK: I forge 
messages in a client to be displayed, internationalized, in all other 
clients. I made a special container class that is filled with not i18ned 
messages parts. These parts are then transmitted over the network with 
KGame::sendMessage and they are then extracted and given to the i18n(...) 
function.

There is problems with this approach:
1. I was not able to find the i18n() function definition, so I'm not sure that 
it will be able to translate strings given at runtime;
2. I don't know how to mark strings in my code to be extracted by the tool 
that makes the .pot file;
3. With this method, I cannot write strings to be translated like that: '...
("ABC %1 XYZ").arg(t)' but I have to write '... << "ABC " << t << " XYZ" 
which does not allow a good translation as soon as there is words order 
changes between languages.

Does anyone know how to cleanly handle i18n of strings in sent to different 
languages clients ?

Thanks in advance.

Kleag
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KsirK - a turn-based strategy game for KDE
http://gna.org/projects/ksirk

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