Re: [Freeciv-Dev] i18n for all eternity

[David Pfitzner <dwp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alex Sandro Queiroz wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, David Pfitzner wrote:
> 
> > (As big file, or as registry file with marked strings to 
> > translate via gettext - to keep track of which translations
> > are up-to-date; probably the latter, but then issues about
> > multi-line gettext-marked strings in registry files.)
> > 
> 
>       Since the code is dettached from source, I think it would be
> better to just translate helpdata.txt, perhaps creating a 'help' directory
> in distribution with data.pt, data.en, data.pl files, somewhat like the
> way LyX do.
>       Does anyone see any reason to use gettext with the whole file?

Um, the reason is in the text included above.  Let me re-state:  
if you use one big file, it will be hard to keep track of which 
translations are up-to-date.  If you use gettext markings and 
tools, this is handled mostly automatically.  Since the base 
(English) helptext tends to have steady changes (sometimes small, 
sometime big), I think this is a significant issue.

-- David