[Sugar-devel] [PATCH 2/5] sl#2815: Localization fixes.

[Simon Schampijer]

On 01/23/2012 05:46 PM, Sascha Silbe wrote:
> Excerpts from Ajay Garg's message of 2012-01-20 21:39:36 +0100:
>
>> Just one more question, can the "TRANS" label string span multiple lines?
>> That is, is something like ::
>>
>>                 # TRANS: first line text
>>                 # second line text
>>                 # third line text
>
> As the gettext documentation is rather sparse on this, I just gave it a
> try within the sugar package. Results:
>
> 1. We don't require the TRANS: prefix, so any comment will be included.
>     We can require the TRANS: prefix by adding "--add-comments=TRANS" to
>     XGETTEXT_OPTIONS in po/Makevars.
>
>     So far, only a single developer comment (that could potentially
>     confuse translators) has slipped into sugar.pot. All comments
>     directed at translators are properly marked as TRANS:, so we could
>     make this change now without any negative impact.
>
> 2. Multi-line comments are correctly handled (i.e. included in full)
>     both with and without requiring the TRANS: prefix.
>
> Sascha

I pushed that one with the wording suggested by Chris and an adjusted 
commit message.

id: 06d790a670ce2e8738ee119ce07b533f2703e600

Regards,
    Simon