[Interest] cross-language matching of QStrings: partial success only?

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Mon May 11 20:22:18 CEST 2015


On Monday 11 May 2015 19:07:31 René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> So apparently the string comparison does not do translation (which isn't
> really a surprise except when you look at the context in which I'm working
> here...).

How would the context change anything? String comparisons do a character-by-
character comparison. If any character is different, the string won't match. 
They have nothing to do with translations.

> It seems the best option would be to ensure that cstyle and istyle are both
> in the same language. For that, I think I'd need to know the language in
> which the elements of "styles" are stored, and then translate "style"
> (cstyle) into that language.
> 
> How does one do that?

I have neither understood your objective nor your solution. I read your email 
three times and I can't get either.

But my suggestion is that you restrict yourself to exact string matches. Don't 
do partials. Either you have the complete translation to be matched or you 
don't.

Better yet, don't compare translations. Compare originals only.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center




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