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From: Flammie Pirinen <flammie@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] i18n project
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 17:20:31
Message-Id: 20060619201621.1ed5b579@pingviinilohhari
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] i18n project by "Jan Kundrát"
1 2006-06-19, Jan Kundrát sanoi, jotta:
2
3 > Paul de Vrieze wrote:
4 > > What about messages output by ebuilds? Are they also going to be
5 > > translated? In that case, how?
6 >
7 > There's no way to provide localized output of einfo/... calls from
8 > ebuild that I'm aware of. Suggestions are welcome :)
9
10 Is there a reason why calling gettext from einfo() etc. or extracting
11 messages from tree using e.g. xgettext wouldn’t work?
12
13 Apart from technicalities, it does raise number of practical problems
14 to keep translations up-to-date with live tree as well as making the
15 messages easier to localise, as with current spliced strings it would
16 generally be a PITA to do.
17
18 --
19 Flammie, Gentoo Linux Documentation’s Finnish head translator
20 and FlameEyes’ bot <http://dev.gentoo.org/~flammie>.

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