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diff --git a/textproc/xml-i18n-tools/DESCR b/textproc/xml-i18n-tools/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..00ed3cd7a8d --- /dev/null +++ b/textproc/xml-i18n-tools/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ + The xml-i18n-tools module contains some utility scripts and assorted auto* +magic for internationalizing various kinds of XML files. This supersedes the +earlier scripts that Kenneth distributed to be checked into each module. +In addition, it has an additional merging feature, currently only for oaf +files. This feature might be extented to handle .desktop files and MIME files +in the future. Features: + + * Automatically extracts translatable strings from oaf, glade, bonobo + ui, nautilus theme and other XML files into the po files. + + * Automatically merges translations from po files back into .oaf files + (encoding to be 7-bit clean). I can also extend this merging + mechanism to support other types of XML files. + + Having the translations directly in the XML file is critical for some file +formats, and very helpful for others. When one package installs a file and +a program from another package might at some time read it, you need to have +the translations directly in the file, since the app reading the data file +will not know which message catalog to use. + + The beauty of this extract and merge system is that it works through the +existing po mechanism, so translators will be able to work in their normal way, +and be notified of strings that change, or new strings that are added, with +existing tools. |