[RFC][PATCH] minimal i18n support: default _() pass-through function; 'make pot' will create PO template

[Lukáš Lalinský]

Hi,

On Ut, 2007-05-08 at 18:44 +0300, Alexander Belchenko wrote:
> The subject says all.
> This is very minimal background to start working on
> preparing bzrlib string resources to translations.
> 
> With this patch bzrlib can use _() without any errors,
> (but and without using translations in runtime)
> and we able to upload POT file in Rosetta.
> 
> Now I convert only short help to translatable form,
> as example.

Just a couple of things I've noticed... 

POT files are usually not versioned, since they are auto-generated. And
you even include pygettext in the patch, so generating the file doesn't
require any additional dependencies.

Another things is that the _() function shouldn't applied to static
strings, like _basic_help in this example. The GNU gettext manual
recommends to use gettext_noop() or N_() to mark these strings for
translations, and then use gettext() or _() at run-time [1]. In this
simple patch it doesn't matter, but I think it would be confusing to use
_() for both cases later.

(I haven't read completely the previous threads, so if it is intentional
just ignore this e-mail, please.)

[1]
http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Special-cases.html

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