[GRASS-dev] i.tasscap translation- Scripts

Markus Neteler neteler at osgeo.org
Thu Jan 28 09:07:20 EST 2010


On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Glynn Clements
<glynn at gclements.plus.com> wrote:
> Markus Neteler wrote:
...
>> The script messages are in the
>> grassmods_XX.po
>> files. You need to translate there (please send the the changes then
>> for inclusion
>> in SVN).
>
> Should g.parser be updated to allow the translation domain to be
> specified?

I think yes.

> Currently, it uses "grassmods" (g.parser itself is a module), but that
> means that anyone wanting to translate a custom script has to merge
> their translations into the grasssmods_*.po files.

It would be pretty nice to separate the "main" GRASS part from user
customization also for the translations.

> It might be useful to allow this to be overridden via e.g. an
> environment variable (adding command-line options to g.parser is
> tricky), so that individual scripts could use a different domain.

Sounds good to me and I volunteer to make tests then.

Markus


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