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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Proposal for translation scripting
From:       Chusslove Illich <caslav.ilic () gmx ! net>
Date:       2004-08-16 11:01:50
Message-ID: 200408161301.52304.caslav.ilic () gmx ! net
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Hi,

In December last year, I made a post about possibility of introducing 
scripting into translations (subject "Programmable translations"), but it 
was just a demonstration of what can be done. In the meantime, I stumbled 
upon and figured out some things, so now I have concrete, ready to test 
code integrated into KDE.

Bad news immediately: Although source compatibility is practically 
preserved (and that was the main reason I went for the implementation), 
this code breaks binary compatibility, so it cannot be integrated before 
KDE 4.

Anyway, here is a paper on this (it took me far more time to write the damn 
thing than to implement the code :), with proto Translator's Scripting 
Guide, some notes on implementation, and additional i18n notes for 
application programmers:

http://caslav.gmxhome.de/writings/ktranscript.html

And here is the source code, corresponding to current CVS HEAD (two files 
in kdelibs/kdecore/ changed, two added):

http://caslav.gmxhome.de/kdemod/kdemod-ts.tar.bz2

There wasn't much interest in this back in December, so there probably is 
not going to be much more now, but I simply had to try and see it for 
myself in live KDE apps :)

- --
Chusslove Illich (Часлав Илић)
Serbian KDE translation team
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