[Adium-devl] Watching a first time Adium user for 5 minutes

[Colin Barrett]

Only 25 hours after the fact:

On Jan 26, 2007, at 8:00 PM, Evan Schoenberg wrote:

> On Jan 26, 2007, at 8:28 PM, Colin Barrett wrote:
>
> 2) We could theoretically leverage gettext two ways.
> 	(a) Automatically, as Gaim itself does.  However, then we can do no  
> string comparisons to find out what we're told, so until there's  
> never any reason for Adium to know what libgaim is telling it in  
> terms of text (and there are a ton of reasons at present), that's  
> not an option.
> 	(b) Manually, once we receive text, we can feed it through  
> gettext.  The problem with (b) is that it fails miserably for nearly  
> all strings... because all substitutions (%i, %s, etc.) have already  
> been made, and of course the translation is supposed to occur before  
> that.

Why not include an "x-adium" translation, which contains hard strings  
like "AUTH_REQUEST: %s %s %s" ? That's what I was originally  
suggesting when I mentioned gettext -- then we don't have to do string  
comparisons, just maintain a localization.

Just sayin'.

-Colin