Patch for i18n

[Mario Blättermann]

Am Freitag, 3. Januar 2014, 11:08:22 schrieb Dan Williams:
> On Fri, 2014-01-03 at 16:09 +0100, Mario Blättermann wrote:
> > Am Freitag, 3. Januar 2014, 13:45:37 schrieben Sie:
> > > Hi Aleksander,
> > > 
> > > Am Freitag, 3. Januar 2014, 12:19:26 schrieben Sie:
> > > > Hey Mario,
> > > > 
> > > > > the project website refers to Freedesktop Bugzilla for sending
> > > > > patches,
> > > > > but
> > > > > there's no "modemmanager" product...? Doesn't matter, there's a
> > > > > developer
> > > > > mailing list :)
> > > > > 
> > > > > The i18n stack seems to be setup basically, but 14 translatable
> > > > > strings
> > > > > are
> > > > > quite poor. Here's the first part of a (probably much bigger) patch
> > > > > to
> > > > > get
> > > > > more translatable strings. See the attachment.
> > > > 
> > > > Err... I don't think anyone wants to get the ModemManager *logs*
> > > > translated... Only user-visible strings should get translated, and
> > > > daemon logs shouldn't be. Or am I missing something? Are there other
> > > > daemons out there which do that?
> > > 
> > > Agreed, such log entries shouldn't be translated. I wasn't aware of
> > > this.
> > > The only things I like to translate besides the current policy ones are
> > > the
> > > UI strings of mmcli in the folder "cli". Could I help out to make them
> > > translatable by adding the _() around the strings?
> > 
> > OK, I couldn't wait ;) In the attachment you'll find the first chunk of an
> > i18n patch. I've marked some strings of the mmcli sources for
> > translation, ommitting the debug messages (g_debug).
> 
> +    g_print (_("  -------------------------\n")
> +             _("  Status             |   connected: '%s'\n")
> +             _("                     |   suspended: '%s'\n")
> 
> I would say that we *shouldn't* translate the formatted table output
> yet, but instead should add functions that will do the formatting based
> on the width of the translated strings, and then do the translations.  I
> don't think it's going to be easy for translators to keep the table-like
> formatting; better to handle that in the code and just have translators
> translate strings.
> 
> So eventually I'd like to end up with something like:
> 
> output (_("Status"), _("connected"), <connected value>);
> output (NULL, _("suspended"), <suspended value>);
> 
> which would automatically format stuff based on the character length of
> the translated strings.
> 
Doesn't matter what decision will be made one day regarding the translation or 
not-translation or the kind of markup of the UI strings in mmcli. FWIW, find 
the German translation of the current 14 strings attached.

In general, to get more languages translated, Modem Manager should be 
available in a i18n system such as Transifex, GNU Translation Project, or 
anything similar. Otherwise possible translators will found the project only 
by accidence.


Best Regards,
Mario
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