Re: Localize GWorkspace

[Pascal Bourguignon]

Nicola Pero <n.pero@mi.flashnet.it> wrote:
> [...]
> If you are localizing in a real hurry, you can just use _() as in
> 
> _(@"My useful string")
> 
> which is just exactly the same as 
> 
> NSLocalizedString (@"My useful string", @"")
> 
> This use no comments, which is bad, but because localizing using _()
> is trivial, there are no excuses for not doing it ...
> 
> Writing the required tools should not be too difficult but ... we want
> tools which are not only able to generate a skeleton
> Localizable.strings file, but also to *update* the existing ones (I
> mean, removing all messages which are not any longer in the new code,
> adding any new message which is in the new code but is not in the
> Localizable.strings file, but keeping any message - including its
> translation - which is in the code and was already in the
> Localizable.strings files).
> 
> If I remember correctly, Pascal has contributed some shell scripts
> which you can use to generate Localizable.strings files from the
> source code - so basically they should already do part of the tools'
> job.  You can ask him for the scripts source code, I think he'll be
> happy to share them.

Yes. You can get them from:
    http://www.informatimago.com/develop/gnustep/index
or  http://informatimago.free.fr/i/develop/gnustep/index
(search for "Downloading gls").

It's a  quick hack using /lib/cpp,  but it can help,  waitting for the
right tools. It would be trivial to add extracting the _ macro too.


> I personally wouldn't mind if we had a couple of Objective-C tools
> which do the job ... then we could integrate those into the make
> package ... and you would only need to type `make strings' or
> something similar and the make package would automatically run the
> needed tools on the source files updating the appropriate
> Localizable.strings automatically ...


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