Some translation related bugs and suggestions

Hello,

While working with the Swedish translation and discussing it at 
[email protected] some bugs have been found:

1. Non-ascii characters are incorrectly displayed in output to terminal, 
as is produced for instance by "gqview --help".
Output to the gui is correct.
I get these errors both if I compile gqview from sources and if I use 
the debian unstable build (1.3.7-1). I am running
debian with glibc 2.3.2.ds1-10, LANG is set to sv_SE.

If I change
line 485 in main.c from:
bind_textdomain_codeset (PACKAGE, "UTF-8");
to:
bind_textdomain_codeset (PACKAGE, "iso-8859-1");
then output to terminal is Ok, but output to the gui doesn't work.

2. Shouldn't this be "fluorescent" ?
#: src/exif.c:162
msgid "flourescent"
msgstr ""

3. Isn't there a space missing from "%sto:\n" ("%s to:\n") in the 
messages below ?
#: src/utilops.c:591
#, c-format
msgid ""
"Unable to copy file:\n"
"%sto:\n"
"%s\n"
" during multiple file copy."
msgstr ""

#: src/utilops.c:596
#, c-format
msgid ""
"Unable to move file:\n"
"%sto:\n"
"%s\n"
" during multiple file move."
msgstr ""

4. Why not just "Show filename" ?
#: src/collect-table.c:809 src/view_file_icon.c:309
msgid "Show filename _text"
msgstr ""

5. Shouldn't the ending of this message be: "not a file."
#: src/utilops.c:850
msgid ""
"When operating with multiple files, please select\n"
" a directory, not file."

Finally some suggestions from Christian Rose:
Use intltool, so the .desktop-file doesn't need to be translated 
separately, more good
reasons to do this can be found at:

http://developer.gnome.org/doc/tutorials/gnome-i18n/developer.html#use-intltool

and at

http://www.gnome.org/~malcolm/i18n/

there is a guide on how to add support for intltool to an existing program.

Use "Translation Project" for the translations, info at:

http://developer.gnome.org/doc/tutorials/gnome-i18n/developer.html#tp


Regards
Hans Öfverbeck





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