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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: Language fall-back
From:       Nicolas Goutte <nicolasg () snafu ! de>
Date:       2004-05-15 18:26:43
Message-ID: 200405152026.06931.nicolasg () snafu ! de
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On Saturday 15 May 2004 16:49, Eduard Werner wrote:
> Sobotu 15 meje 200415:12, Heiko Evermann pisaše:
(...)
> > The current implementation forces people who use these languages to see
> > the untranslated entries in English. I doubt that this is a good choice
> > for most people.
> >
> > Think about the alternative: load the catalogs for all the languages that
> > the user chose in kcontrol, and the user can choose what he gets to see.
> > If he likes English, he can just choose one (his) language and English.
> > But if he doesn't, he can pick any other language to fill in the gaps of
> > his favourite translation. I guess, it might not even be too difficult to
> > implement that?
>
> I don't know. It will definitely make KDE a bit slower. Maybe when the
> language settings get changed a new .mo-file could be generated containing
> all the strings in all the languages you want for every program (I guess
> msgmerge could already do that). The language settings of a user would then
> result in a virtual "user language". That way KDE wouldn't have to load
> several language catalogs.

But users get only .po files shipped, not the .mo ones.

Then you would also to have to "compile" the .mo files in .po (or without .mo 
files, uncompile, merge, re-compile.)

>
(...)
>
> Cheers
>
> Edi

Have a nice day!


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