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Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU produces invalid JSON due to locale-dependent code
From: |
Gerd Hoffmann |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU produces invalid JSON due to locale-dependent code |
Date: |
Wed, 26 Aug 2015 08:46:35 +0200 |
Hi,
> > It seems the only thing that we really care about being localized is
> > the messages catalogue, so the GTK UI gets internationalization in
> > its menus / dialogs / etc. As such I think that we should do the
> > opposite of (C). ie run every LC_* in the C locale, except for
> > LC_MESSAGES which we allow to be localized.
> >
> > This avoids any unpredictable functional consequences (like number
> > formatting) while still giving user decent localization in the UI
>
> Except that the LC_MESSAGES catalog may include messages such as "blah
> %d blah" that get translated for use as a printf argument, and the lack
> of matching LC_NUMERIC will make the translation look wrong.
> Translators often assume that their translation is being used with
> everything else about the locale matching the locale of the translation.
I don't think this is a big issue in practice. The menu item names are
pretty much the only thing translated in the qemu gtk ui ...
cheers,
Gerd
- Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU produces invalid JSON due to locale-dependent code, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU produces invalid JSON due to locale-dependent code, Markus Armbruster, 2015/08/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU produces invalid JSON due to locale-dependent code, Eric Blake, 2015/08/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU produces invalid JSON due to locale-dependent code, Markus Armbruster, 2015/08/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU produces invalid JSON due to locale-dependent code, Alberto Garcia, 2015/08/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU produces invalid JSON due to locale-dependent code, Markus Armbruster, 2015/08/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU produces invalid JSON due to locale-dependent code, Alberto Garcia, 2015/08/26
- Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU produces invalid JSON due to locale-dependent code, Daniel P. Berrange, 2015/08/26
- Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU produces invalid JSON due to locale-dependent code, Markus Armbruster, 2015/08/26
- Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU produces invalid JSON due to locale-dependent code, Daniel P. Berrange, 2015/08/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU produces invalid JSON due to locale-dependent code, Eric Blake, 2015/08/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU produces invalid JSON due to locale-dependent code,
Gerd Hoffmann <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU produces invalid JSON due to locale-dependent code, Daniel P. Berrange, 2015/08/26
- Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU produces invalid JSON due to locale-dependent code, Markus Armbruster, 2015/08/26