[lazarus] Some more localization

Mattias Gaertner nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de
Fri Sep 20 05:17:45 EDT 2002


On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 12:40:35 +0400
"Vasily I. Volchenko" <Vasily.Volchenko at mstu.edu.ru> wrote:

> Subj.
> Localized (and, of course, russified) a bit more things: codetools and
> compiler options dialogs, some window captions, view form/unit dialog.
> Made a simple script for all existing .po (except default English .po)
> to .mo compile.

Thx. Applied.

The resourcestrings are almost always used only once, and they stand for their text. So, I think, their names can be long. You don't need to abbreviate them.
And for short phrases you can add pre-/postfixes as you did for

dlgSpaceNotCosmos :)


> Another problems: dialog windows are optimized for English phrases,
> sometimes without any additional space, and even sometimes space is not
> enough for English. Localized phrases sometimes longer, but sometimes
> shorter. It would be a good idea to reoptimize it. May be, I'll do it.

ok


Mattias






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