Re: Full Gettext support in KBabel

On Thursday 20 October 2005 22:30, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> On Thursday 20 October 2005 22:10, Chusslove Illich wrote:
> > >> [: Chusslove Illich :]
> > >> To keep 3.5 KBabel in the game, we could have a script which converts
> > >> standard Gettext POT to KDE's current custom POT for mergings and
> > >> translations, and then the translated custom PO back to standard PO
> > >> for installation.
> > >
> > > [: Nicolas Goutte :]
> > > You have still a problem.
> > >
> > > A third party application made for KDE 4.0 which you try to compile on
> > > KDE 4.1. How would you handle the PO files?
> >
> > I don't quite understand. From the point of view of KDE 4.0, everything
> > should be standard Gettext, PO and .mo files included. It is just a
> > makeshift for the translators using 3.5 KBabel, this script stuff.
>
> Okay, to avoid further misunderstanding: you mean that in KDE4's l10n
> module all will be in today's Gettext format (with Gettext context and
> Gettext plural).
>
> But then you are breaking KBabel's catalog manager, as you could not update
> and commit directly anymore.

Worse: the catalog manager will consider all fies as corrupt, as the old 
msgfmt will not work with such files.

(In the meanwhile I think that it is the biggest priority. That particular 
msgfmt call should go. Now I would like to understand why it is here at 
first.(Still assuming that I have read correctly the code.))

>
> (Any way, such a script form KDE 3.5 to KDE4 is needed, at least once for
> converting the l10n module.)
>
> (...)
>
> Have  a nice day!
>
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