From kde-pim  Mon Jul 12 09:34:22 1999
From: Don Sanders <dsanders () cch ! com ! au>
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 09:34:22 +0000
To: kde-pim
Subject: Re: Addressbook UI
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On Fri, 09 Jul 1999, Rik Hemsley wrote:
> On 09-Jul-99 Don Sanders wrote:
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> > Another problem I have is that I have long lists of strings defined in my
> > code.
> > I'm wondering what the proper method of dealing with them is. At the moment I
> > have a 
> > 
> > QString blaa[] = {
> >   "a", "b", "c", ""
> > };
> > 
> > and a
> > 
> > for(int i = 0; blaa[i] != ""; ++i)
> >   dosomething( i18n( blaa );
> > 
> > surely there is a better way, yes?
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> I'm concerned about having i18n(variable). I don't know how i18n() works but I
> wonder whether translation will actually work unless you do i18n("string").
Exactly. Oh well I'll append looking into it further onto my todo list.

> > Even nastier I have lists like
> > 
> > QString title[] = {
> >   "Mr.", "Miss", "Mrs.", "Prof"
> > };
> > 
> > Which may well be locale dependent. (I guess different cultures might not
> > have
> > an equivalent to Miss or may have more titles than English speakers do) How
> > do I
> > handle this in a locale independent way?
> 
> I think this might work:
> Pick a number of titles. Define what they mean. Make the Combo editable
> so anyone can add their own. This way, you can do something like this:
> 
> # 1 = Male 2 = Unmarried female 3 = Married female 4 = Married/Unmarried female
> # (polite form) 5 = Person with PhD >5 = Anything else
> 
> const QString titles = i18n("1,Mr,2,Miss,3,Mrs,4,Ms,5,Dr");
> 
> You can then parse the list and map the correct titles.
> 
> The French version might look something like this (I don't know the contracted
> forms or the word for doctor)
> 
> "1,Monsieur,2,Mademoiselle,4,Madame,5,Dr"
> 
> You can then add only those which are defined.
> 
> This is a little odd. Perhaps there's a better way.
This looks fine, I don't actually need numbers though just a comma
separated list of values. Actually after having discussed this a bit it might
not be a problem in reality.

BFN,
Don.