[Zope-CMF] Re: I18n-skins: Why I did what I did :-)

[Yuppie]

Hi!


Gitte Wange (by way of Gitte Wange ) wrote:
> On Monday 03 March 2003 01:01 pm, Gitte Wange wrote:
> 
>>On Monday 03 March 2003 12:54 pm, you wrote:
>>
>>>>I used the text-strings as msgids because skins will break if you do
>>>>not have the translation-stuff setup. We have that problem in our
>>>>custom skins, and it doensn't look good with a button displaying
>>>>'ok_submit_button' or whatever you set the msgid to be.
>>>
>>>This was a bug in some old (Zope2.6.0alpha1?) zope version, it doesnt
>>>work like that for later stable versions.
>>
>>Hmmm weird - in my Zope-2.6.1.b2 setup it still looks weird if I use msgids
>>and they are not translated inside the messagecatalog ???
> 
> 
> Sorry !!!
> I checked the wrong instance (damned having so many Zopes running *S*)
> No - it lookes very very nice !
> Well then yes - we should fix the skins for CMFDefault.

Well, I'm still not sure what's the Right Thing to. In an other thread 
Dieter pointed out this disadvantage of msgids:

Dieter Maurer wrote:
> Florent Guillaume wrote at 2003-2-27 15:15 +0100:
>  > Then those that haven't changed their translations will just see the old
>  > message in their language, and updating the translation in the .po file
>  > is simply updating one string.
> 
> This may have the disadvantage that you might miss changes that require
> retranslation (as the id did not change).



> How to do ??

Whatever we do:

I spent some hours merging your skins and doing related changes. I'll 
not do this again. All additional changes should be against 
yuppie-collector122-branch, as long as the branch isn't merged into HEAD.


BTW:

Feel free to test yuppie-collector122-branch, skins should be complete now.

Should we also add .po / .pot files to cvs? What would be the right 
directory?

What kind of documentation is needed? Where should this go?


Cheers,

Yuppie