RE: [Freeciv-Dev] i18n for all eternity

[David Pérez Serrada <dperez@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: Falk Hueffner [mailto:falk.hueffner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Enviado el: jueves 26 de agosto de 1999 23:09
> Para: Freeciv Dev
> Asunto: Re: [Freeciv-Dev] i18n for all eternity
> 
> 
> Artur Biesiadowski <abies@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > Please stick to _/N_ (BTW, you will need Ni18n or something similar
> > also...)
> 
> Uhm, I know _(), but what does N_() do?
_() mark an strings for translation and translate it. N_() only mark the
string.

An example:

Suppose you want to tranlate the following program.

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char *gretting ={ "Hola", "Hello", "Egun on"};

....


 printf("Greeting: %s",greeting[i]);
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You can't translate the strings in the definition of gretting cause gretting
is a constant string, so the solution is, to mark the string in the
definition
(N_() does noting, normaly N_(String) is equal to (String)), and translate
it when
the strings is called)


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char *gretting = {N_("Hola"), N_("Hello"), N_("Egun on")}
.....

   printf("Greetting: %s", _(greeting[i]));
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                                          Ta otra.... David