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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: Locale x-test in kf5
From:       Albert Astals Cid <aacid () kde ! org>
Date:       2014-10-14 17:59:04
Message-ID: 2044785.mroqCSZZQE () xps
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El Dimarts, 14 d'octubre de 2014, a les 15:14:07, Burkhard Lück va escriure:
> Hi translators,
> 
> my favorite locale x-test to check translation issues and evil fixed
> layout is somehow crippled in kf5
> 
> 1) we have no translations for Qt like kdeqt.po with 1985 msgs in kde4
> 
> 2) Qt does not load a translation from locale x-test, because x-test is a
> KDE internal locale and therefore unknown to Qt, so it will refuse to load
> these translations, even if a catalog with these translations exists.
> This affects
> qtbase_*.ts with 1444 msgs
> all catalogs in frameworks/*_qt.po with 1058 msgs
> 
> To make locale x-test again usable for me I have performed these steps:
> 
> * convert qtbase_de.ts from my qt 5.3 sources  to the gettext template
> qtbase_de.pot
> * generate a qtbase_de.po in x-test with msgstr's xxfooxx
> * convert the qtbase_de.po to qtbase_zu.qm
> * install locale KDE x-test in + qtbase_zu.qm  in kf5/share/locale/zu
> 
> Now x-test is usable again for me under the new language name "zu".
> 
> My choice for the faked x-test locale was Zulu (zu), because zu is in
> kf5/share/locale/kf5_all_languages, has zero translations in kde and is in
> ISO 639-1 and therefore known to Qt as well.
> 
> Now I have most of x-text translations back, except the translations from
> desktop files, which have no msgs for locale zu.
> 
> What about if we use this recipe, rename x-test to zu (or select another
> locale from 639-1) to get a fully supported locale x-test with a different
> name again?

To me it doesn't seem polite belittling any language and converting it into x-
test.

We should try to find if there's a way to make Qt loading other languages, i 
know it's much harder but really how would you feel if you're a Zulu speaker 
when reading that we decided your language sucks and we're going to use it for 
testing?

Cheers,
  Albert
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