[Merge] lp:~songofacandy/bzr/i18n into lp:bzr

[Vincent Ladeuil]

(forwarding to the list instead while keeping Daniel in CC so the
discussion occurs in a more appropriate place).
>>>>> Alexander Belchenko  writes:

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    > What's intltool? That's one: https://launchpad.net/intltool ?
    > Is it work on Windows? Mac?

Does it have to ?

May be we can provide the resources needed by the installers without
requiring the toolchain to run on all supported platforms ?

(I thought about that for the doc itself which could also be produced
once and re-used by the installers (I may be wrong for some windows
specific formats, but that would still reduce the work needed to build
an installer).

<snip/>

    > Because _ has special meaning in PDB. Why does it matter?

Given all the comments received on this topic I've started to wonder if
we shouldn't revisit it.

We *did* encounter issues when we first started to use gettext for
bzr-gtk and at this time gettext was exporting '_' in a way that was
causing troubles. I can't remember the details right now but roughly the
issue was that using '_' as a no-name variable anywhere was overriding
gettext '_' definition so the next use of '_' (in a totally different
scope) was suddenly broken.

But is still the case for recent versions of gettext and python ?

If using '_' for l10n is the most common practice in python projects we
may want to adopt it (if only because some tools may work better in this
case (wild guess)).

       Vincent