Am 21.10.2010 um 19:39 schrieb Humdinger:
<p>To make localization easier for the translators, long texts should
be split up into paragraphs. This way, changes in one paragraph don't
invalidate the whole text for the online translation tool. Example from
[http://dev.haiku-os.org/browser/haiku/trunk/src/apps/installer/InstallerApp.cpp#L102
Installer]:</p>
There is a much easier solution to that problem. Right now there is a
dependency from the
default English text to the translations.
To avoid that dependency instead of using English text in TR(...) one could use
meaningful "key values".
For example instead of
B_TRANSLATE("OK") use B_TRANSLATE("okButtonLabel")
or instead of
B_TRANSLATE("Welcome to the Haiku Installer!\n\n")
use
B_TRANSLATE("WelcomeText")
For very long text this has the advantage that the "key values" are shorter and
need less memory space.
One disadvantage is, that now there is no automatic fallback to English, if the
translation is missing.
But that could be implemented, if it is not already in the Locale Kit.
