[vlc-devel] i18n and .ui

[Christophe Mutricy]

Hello,

Here are some ideas and comments about them on the problem of i18n and
.ui. 

Please comment on the various solution and feel free to come-up
with some other solutions

The Problem:

The .ui file contains translatable strings in an XML format.
xgettext doesn't understand such string.
The current po/Makefile.in.in only scan srcdir and not builddir


The potential Solutions:

1/ Add the .h generated from the .ui to the repository (and tarball).
   It is ugly because we store generated file and require extra work
when modifying a .ui

2/ We replace gettext's Makefile.in.in with our own Makefile.in.in (or
Makefile.am) to be able to scan both srcdir and builddir. 

3/ We replace gettext's Makefile.in.in with our own Makefile.in.in and
we pipe the .ui through some sed or awk before xgettext to transform the
XML strings in C strings.

2/ and 3/ have the added advantage that we can further tweak the
Makefile to make it more Git-friendly and avoid the need of git stash or
--disable-nls.


Opinions ?

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Xtophe