(08-14-2014, 03:45 AM)GunChleoc Wrote: (08-11-2014, 09:03 AM)CrystalH Wrote: What bothers me the most is that all strings are just in 1 big list. Sorted by the text itself.
With Gettext, the programmer can sort the strings either alphabetically or by orruccence in the source file. The second order is always better IMO, because it gives translators a bit of context.
Programmers can also add comment for translators directly aboc the string in the source code . if you're using Intltool, simply prefix the comment with TRANSLATORS and it gets picked up. If you're not using Intltool, you can steal some code from Widelands. (their implementation is in utils/buildcat.py)
Volunteers, please step forward!
If there is anyone interested to work on the UI, I'd be happy to assist. Extending the string grabbing script (data/locale/genpot.py) to fetch hints for translators shouldn't be too difficult.
