[xliff-tools] RESTYPE attribute for PO translation units

[Mike Butler]

On 27 Apr 2005, at 09:58, Tim Foster wrote:

>  The restype attribute is a bit crap imho - very win32 biased :-)


Tim, you took the words right out of my mouth!

	Mike.




On 27 Apr 2005, at 09:58, Tim Foster wrote:

> Hey Folks,
>
> On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 06:13, Asgeir Frimannsson wrote:
>> Would it be sensible to set the default value of the restype 
>> attribute for
>> translation units to 'string' - as it is without exceptions strings 
>> we in
>> gettext are extracting from source code?
>
> I'd be inclined not to use restype for po files : looking at the
> possible options, it's got the potential to confuse translation tools.
> (eg. who's to say that the po message being wrapped doesn't in fact
> represent a tool-tip text, a button label, radio button etc.)
>
> Setting all res-types as "string" for po files doesn't really help
> anyone, unless we had some fancy way of determining what the msgid
> actually refers to. Just my thoughts on it anyway... The restype
> attribute is a bit crap imho - very win32 biased :-)
>
> 	cheers,
> 			tim
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