Re: l10n/i18n issue in gvfs

On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 16:53 +0100, Luca Ferretti wrote:

>         Making all in po
>         make[2]: Entering directory `/home/luca/svn/gnome2/gvfs/po'
>         Makefile:146: *** target pattern contains no `%'.  Stop.
>         make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/luca/svn/gnome2/gvfs/po'
>         make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>         make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/luca/svn/gnome2/gvfs'
>         make: *** [all] Error 2
>         
> It seems that the "[encoding: UTF-8]" line is an intltool only
> feature :-(
> 
> So we should:
>      A. remove all non-ASCII strings from source code to make gettext
>         happy, or
>      B. intltoolize (i.e. make gvfs depends on intltool) gvfs
> 
> IF you choose option B, I can do it; meanwhile, I'll search non-ASCII
> strings in sources.

Offhand I can't think of any non-ascii translated messages in gvfs, but
if you can find any that are not bugs, then we should go with B imho.

> PS about i18n/l10n in gvfs: what about mark for translation messages
> from gvfs-<program> programs (and maybe adding some beautiful
> explanation about feature and usage) too?

Sounds good to me. Wanna send in patches?