Re: Arabic translation issue - please advice

[Isam Bayazidi <bayazidi at arabeyes dot org>]

On Sunday 03 November 2002 08:05, Jasem Mutlaq wrote:
> [note] I sent this email before but didn't get replies so far, I'm sending
> it again :)

Sorry for not replying instantly ..

>
> Hello,
>
> Even after I was done from translating Kstars.po, I still had few items
> that were not translated. I used msgfmt to convert kstars.po to kstars.mo,
> then I copied kstars.mo to /opt/kde3/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES , or
> something like that that contains all the arabic translations.
>
> I noticed two things:
>
> 1) Two menu items were not translated. "Focus" and "Time" were not
> translated. All menu items are declared in an .rc file, with something like
> this:
>
> <Menu name="focus" noMerge="1"><text>F&amp;ocus</text>
> 		<Action name="zenith" />
> 		<Action name="north" />
> 		<Action name="east" />
> 		<Action name="south" />
> 		<Action name="west" />
> 		<Action name="find_object" />
> 		<Action name="track_object" />
> 		<Action name="manual_focus" />
> 	</Menu>
>
> I didn't translate the other menu items (like Tools, Help..etc) but they
> were in Arabic nonetheless when the locale was turned to Arabic. I would
> guess from that that the menu items translation is taken from somewhere
> else? maybe kdelibs or something like that?

That is true .. Menu items that are shared with all KDE applications such as 
the "File", "Tools" and so reside in the kdelibs.po file.. 


> 2) Some other items were not translated, when I looked in the KStars code,
> I found that they all share the same feature. They all use the "extended"
> i18n, the version that takes care of Context (whether the word is a verb or
> a noun), Here is an example:
>
> RAzLabel = new QLabel( i18n( "azimuth of object as it rises above horizon",
> "Azimuth at rise:" ), this );
>
> You would notice that i18n takes two arguments, the first one defines the
> context, and the second one is the string itself.
>
> I invoke xgettext using keywords -ki18n and -kI18N_NOOP and the resulting
> .pot file includes the first argument "azimuth of object as it rises above
> horizon", but the "Azimuth at rise" string is not there.
>
> I'm not sure if it _meant_ to be that way or something else, but after the
> translation, "Azimuth at rise" is still in English, so there must be
> something wrong.
>
> Any ideas?

I am not sure about this .. I advise you to get to the kde-i18n-doc list .. I 
will forword your email to it and see .. I am already a member in that list..


>
> regards,
> Jasem Mutlaq

Yours
Isam Bayazidi