Kstars.po questions..

[Isam Bayazidi <bayazidi at arabeyes dot org>]

Hi all .. 
One of the Arabic translation team members, Jasem Mutlaq, asked sent a 
question about the kstars PO file that I was not sure about .. so I thought 
maybe you can help us here:

(The first note(part) is answered in the list, the second part is the one that 
was not clear to me)

> 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? 
>
> 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?


Yours
Isam Bayazidi