[haiku-development] Re: Localization: trailing spaces issue (Was: [haiku-commits] r40476 - haiku/trunk/src/apps/launchbox)
- From: Oliver Tappe <zooey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 14:57:07 +0100
On 2011-02-13 at 13:57:50 [+0100], Siarzhuk Zharski <zharik@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Below is a quote from one of my "patch applying" commit:
>
[ ... ]
> > - BString name(B_TRANSLATE("Pad "));
> > - name << i + 1;
> > + BString name(B_TRANSLATE("Pad"));
> > + name << " " << i + 1;
> > BMessage* windowSettings = new BMessage(windowMessage);
> > MainWindow* window = new MainWindow(name.String(), frame,
> > windowSettings);
>
> Mentioned problem with trailing spaces has it's origins in the HTA
> system. Current implementation doesn't mark the spaces in any way, so
> original English line ended with space looks identical to one without
> the space at the end. So, usually this space is not transferred to
> localized string during translation on HTA. And as result, the localized
> UI will look different than original English one. For example look on
> this http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15787359/missing_spaces.png
>
> Now about the "fixing" it in the source code. From my point of view
> this is just useless obfuscation and should be prohibited.
Indeed. Let's fix the tool instead.
cheers,
Oliver
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