i18l, gettext and (X)dialog

[Michelle Konzack <linux4michelle@freenet.de>]

Hello,

I hope I can ask here, because you are the i18n special1sts and from
none of the other mailinglists I have gotten a suitable answer.

OK, I have gotten a couple of tools and frontends which are using
(X)dialog but unfortunatly they are only in english.

OK, no problem, - I was thinking...

Most displayed text are now i18n but there is a problem with
"--backtitle" in (X)dialog.

The original looks like:

----8<--------------------------------------------------------------
Xdialog --title "sampleprog" --screen-center --no-cancel --wrap --backtitle "Here a text which show $FOO BAR" --fixed-font --textbox $FILE 30 $DLGW
----8<--------------------------------------------------------------

this is working fine, but I want the Backtitle i18n.
So now I want to internationalize this Dialog and
I have tried:

----8<--------------------------------------------------------------
Xdialog --title "sampleprog" --screen-center --no-cancel --wrap --backtitle "`eval_gettext "Here a text which show \$FOO BAR"`" --fixed-font --textbox $FILE 30 $DLGW
----8<--------------------------------------------------------------

which does not work. Same for

----8<--------------------------------------------------------------
Xdialog --title "sampleprog" --screen-center --no-cancel --wrap --backtitle "`eval_gettext \"Here a text which show \$FOO BAR\"`" --fixed-font --textbox $FILE 30 $DLGW
----8<--------------------------------------------------------------

and

----8<--------------------------------------------------------------
Xdialog --title "sampleprog" --screen-center --no-cancel --wrap --backtitle "`eval_gettext 'Here a text which show \$FOO BAR'`" --fixed-font --textbox $FILE 30 $DLGW
----8<--------------------------------------------------------------

Then I have tried to translate the Sting before the Xdialog with

----8<--------------------------------------------------------------
BACKTITLE=`eval_gettext "Here a text which show \$FOO BAR"`
Xdialog --title "sampleprogi" --screen-center --no-cancel --wrap --backtitle "$BACKTITLE" --fixed-font --textbox $FILE 30 $DLGW
----8<--------------------------------------------------------------

which was not working too.  So the only thing working was to echo the
Xdialog into a script and source it like

----8<--------------------------------------------------------------
TMPFILE=`mktemp -t sampleprog.XXXXXX || exit 0`
echo -n "Xdialog --title 'sampleprog' --screen-center --no-cancel --wrap --backtitle '" >$TMPFILE
eval_gettext "Here a text which show \$FOO BAR" >>$TMPFILE
echo "' --fixed-font --textbox $FILE 30 $DLGW" >>$TMPFILE
. $TMPFILE
rm -f $TMPFILE
----8<--------------------------------------------------------------

which is a little bit crazzy!  I do not like to rewrite thos dialogs
and do not want to have the hassles if the scripts die without
cleaning up the $TMP, to have tonns of tempfiles laying around.
(it was allready happen)

So now my question to you i18n profis:

How can I get it running?

Oh yes, the old version $"Some text to translate." was working fine,
but it is deprecated and a security problem (see manpage).

Greetings
    Michelle


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