Hello,

After I was done with translating a KDE application (KStars) to Arabic, I=
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still had few items that were not translated. I used msgfmt to convert=20
kstars.po to kstars.mo, then I copied kstars.mo to=20
/opt/kde3/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES , or something like=20
that that contains all the arabic translations.

I noticed two things:

1) Two menu items were not translated. "Focus" and "Time" were not transl=
ated.=20
All menu items are declared in an .rc file, with something like this:

<Menu name=3D"focus" noMerge=3D"1"><text>F&amp;ocus</text>
                <Action name=3D"zenith" />
                <Action name=3D"north" />
                <Action name=3D"east" />
                <Action name=3D"south" />
                <Action name=3D"west" />
                <Action name=3D"find_object" />
                <Action name=3D"track_object" />
                <Action name=3D"manual_focus" />
        </Menu>

I didn't translate the other menu items (like Tools, Help..etc) but they =
were=20
in Arabic nonetheless when the locale was turned to Arabic. I would guess=
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from that that the menu items translation is taken from somewhere else? m=
aybe=20
kdelibs or something like that?=20

2) Some other items were not translated, when I looked in the KStars code=
, I=20
found that they all share the same feature. They all use the "extended" i=
18n,=20
the version that takes care of Context (whether the word is a verb or a=20
noun), Here is an example:

RAzLabel =3D new QLabel( i18n( "azimuth of object as it rises above horiz=
on",=20
"Azimuth at rise:" ), this );

You would notice that i18n takes two arguments, the first one defines the=
=20
context, and the second one is the string itself.=20

I invoke xgettext using keywords -ki18n and -kI18N_NOOP and the resulting=
 .pot=20
file includes the first argument "azimuth of object as it rises above=20
horizon", but the "Azimuth at rise" string is not there.

I'm not sure if it _meant_ to be that way or something else, but after th=
e=20
translation, "Azimuth at rise" is still in English, so there must be=20
something wrong.

Any ideas?

regards,
Jasem Mutlaq