[Xfce-i18n] Strings from libexo

Benedikt Meurer benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de
Thu May 4 17:10:34 CEST 2006


Daichi Kawahata wrote:
>>>where can I found the strings from (lib)exo, please? There are many
>>>strings to translate, but I was only able to show these from command
>>>line help or the strings from "Preferred applications" dialog. Could
>>>anyone advise more?
>>
>>Which strings do you mean exactly? For example the strings from the
>>first-time chooser dialog (only shown if default is not found) can be
>>seen by editing ~/.config/xfce4/helpers.rc and setting the WebBrowser,
>>MailReader and TerminalEmulator settings to invalid values, i.e.:
>>
>>WebBrowser=doesnotexists
>>MailReader=doesnotexists
>>TerminalEmulator=doesnotexists
>>
>>Now with
>>
>>exo-open --launch WebBrowser
>>exo-open --launch MailReader
>>exo-open --launch TerminalEmulator
>>
>>you'll see the strings asking you to choose an application first.
> 
> I think he's referring to the strings:
> 
>   $ grep -C 2 'NOTE: ' ja.po | grep msgid

The translations of the GObject property names/nicks? I guess I should
just drop the _() for the property names/nicks, it's just confusing
translators?

> in revision 21476. Also
> 
>   $ exo-csource --help
> 
> gives UTF-8 encoded strings.

My brain is leaking... Do we want UTF-8 there?

Benedikt



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