[Interest] Translation support totally broken

[Harish Surana]

thanks Thiago for nice tip of !! :)


On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Thiago Macieira
<thiago.macieira at intel.com>wrote:

> On quarta-feira, 18 de dezembro de 2013 16:58:22, Till Oliver Knoll wrote:
> > "ID based translation" is the bigest fuckup since the invention of i18n!
> >
> > Oh just how I hated that concept when back in Java. Or any other
> framework
> > for that matter.
> >
> > In Qt you have the /actual messages/ in the source code, so I never have
> to
> > wonder what e.g.
> >
> >   dialog->showMessage(resourceBundle->msg('msg_12345', arg1, arg2,
> arg3); //
> > hold on! Does that message really take 3 args? WTF!
>
> One intermediate solution we used to use in Nokia products was to write
> "Engineering English" in the source code. If you've ever used a prototype,
> you
> might have seen strings with "!!" in the beginning. For example, you'd
> write:
>
>         dialog->showMessage(tr("!! This is %1 and the date is the %2")
>                 .arg("frobniz")
>                 .arg(QLocale().toString(QDateTime::currentDateTime()));
>
> And then you have a translation team translating from "Engineering
> English" to
> "Proper English", including fixing grammar errors like using an article
> before
> the date.
>
> (It might be that the double bang was added by the translation system, not
> written in the text)
>
> This has the following benefits:
>  - developers don't have to have perfect command of English
>  - fixing the English text doesn't affect other languages
>  - immediately visible which strings didn't get translated yet, from the !!
>
> --
> Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
>   Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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