[lazarus] Two FPC questions

[Michal Bukovjan]

Michael Van Canneyt wrote:

>On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Michal Bukovjan wrote:
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>>Marco van de Voort wrote:
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>>So how do you these translate (Pascal) expressions with standard
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>>How do you generate .po files then?
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>The rst2po tool takes care of this translation.
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I will have a look. If it can deal with expressions, I stand corrected.

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>>What about platform independent .lfm files, that contain multiline strings?
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>This will fail anyhow, since you will get the string as it was compiled,
>ie.  compiled on linux will result in a #10, on windows in a #13#10.
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I meant the sources, for IDE. But this can be solved the same way as in 
case of rst2po.

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>>But maybe I am missing something; maybe the issue is more complicated
>>than it seems. You are the wizards :-)
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>>Does anyone know how Borland handles translations?
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>It doesn't do any as far as I know.
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I don't know neither, but I remember that back in time Delphi 5 was 
supposed to come with some tool for assisting translations. But I never 
used it, so if someone can shed a light on this...

Michal