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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Translation (i18n) question
From:       mh <crapsite () gmx ! net>
Date:       2002-02-27 15:43:36
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Hans Petter Bieker, Mittwoch, 27. Februar 2002 13:24:
> On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, mh wrote:
> > is it possible to load a catalogue (*.mo), which is not located in KDEs
> > standard location?
> > I.e. if I know the absolute path /some_path/bla.mo, is it then possible
> > to load this file through KLocale?
> > The only function I could find is insertCatalogue(), but it seems, that
> > this function assumes, that the catalogue is located in KDEs "locale" -
> > dir. Or shorter: Is there something like QTranslator::load() for KLocale?
>
> No. Why do you need it? Perhaps you can use KCatalogue directly.

Because I need to access the translation supplied by another library 
(libsane). Stephan Kulow already pointed out, that this can be done with
KGlobal::dirs()->addResourceDir() and KLocal::insertCatalouge().
However, as I wrote in a followup, the translated strings aren't displayed 
correctly (missing "Umlaute" or vowel mutations). I thought (without knowing 
much about KDEs i18n framework), that this is due to the fact, that the .po 
files are not utf8 encoded.
I did some additional tests:
1.If I use bindtextdomain() and textdomain() and then 
QString translated_string = gettext(untranslated_char_string)
it works without problems.

2. If I use my own .mo file loader in conjunction with QTranslator, it seems 
to work too:
QString qs = translated_char_string_from_mo_file;
QString qs2 = QString::fromUtf8(qs);
qs2 = QString(qs2.utf8());
QString translated_string_for_translator;
if(qs == qs2)
  translated_string_for_translator = QString::fromUtf8(qs);
else
  translated_string_for_translator = qs.local8Bit();
QTranslator trans.insert(QTranslatorMessage(scope,original_char_string,       
                                      translated_string_for_translator));

So why doesn't this work with KLocal::insertCatalouge() ? As far as I can 
tell, KDE simply uses libintl ported to C++ (kdecore/libintl.cpp). 
And more important, how should I proceed now?
Anyone, please...

Thanks
Michael
 
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