Re: Debian Debconf Translation proposal ( again )

[Dominique Devriese <dominique.devriese@student.kuleuven.ac.be>]

Isaac Clerencia writes:

> On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 00:26, Dominique Devriese wrote:
>> Perhaps debconf could be changed to use gettext instead.  I.e. when
>> it sees a translatable string in a template, it calls gettext on
>> it.  That way, all the translation packages have to do is to put
>> the .(g)mo files in the right location.

> debconf is already able to use gettext, see po-debconf

> lots of packages already use debconf with gettext

Yes, but the difference is that the only thing po-debconf changes is
that the different translations are now not stored in one big file in
the package anymore, but in several separate files in the package.
The keywords are "in the package", and for the translators, po-debconf
fixes some encoding problems, but doesn't address the other problems
with the current system.

cheers
domi