[haiku-development] Re: Coding Guidelines need update for localization
- From: "Humdinger" <humdingerb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 11:46:45 +0100
Adrien Destugues, on Wed, 20 Oct 2010 22:41:10 +0200:
> Le 20/10/2010 22:33, Starsseed a écrit :
> > From: "Humdinger" <humdingerb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 10:08 PM
> >> I didn't succeed with "+", but this works:
> > Thanks for the feedback : I don't know the String member
> > functions/operators
> >
> >> BString infoText;
> >> infoText << B_TRANSLATE(
> >> "Welcome to the Haiku Installer!\n\n");
> >> infoText << B_TRANSLATE(
> >> "IMPORTANT INFORMATION BEFORE INSTALLING HAIKU\n\n");
> >> infoText << B_TRANSLATE(
> >> "This is alpha-quality software! It means there is a high risk
> >> of "
> >> "losing important data. Make frequent backups! You have been "
> >> "warned.\n\n\n");
> >>
> >> If that's OK, I can commit this change.
> > That's fine (to me)
> > If others core-developers are agree with the style, Please do.
> >
> > Thanks a lot.
> >
> Please note this kind of changes needs all the existing translations
> to
> be remade, so we should rather set the guidelines in stone and then
> change the code all at once.
> But other than that, the style looks ok to me.
This thread has wandered off a bit, discussing more changes in the
method to do translations in general. Without a result, I think...
Anyway, Loïc informed me that now that the HTA is back on track (thanks
Travis!), the above mentioned Installer text is a pretty mess. See
http://hta.polytect.org/catalogs/view/9/fr. He asks, if I couldn't
commit my split-into-paragraphs patch seen above.
What do you say?
Regards,
Humdinger
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