Re: [Po4a-devel] OS X .strings support
Hello,
On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 02:41:40AM -0800, aietkolkhi(a)gmail.com wrote:
Hello Nekral,
Thanks for the quick reply.
.strings format files are generally used when localizing OS X applications.
They are UTF-16 (with BOM and Unix line endings) encoded text files that
include the source and translated strings.
Here is an example of Alerts.strings file from localization package of an
application called Cyberduck:
/* NSButton (Cancel) : <title:Cancel> (oid:9) */
"Cancel" = "Cancel";
OK, then .strings is yet another translation format as PO, XLIFF or
.properties.
po4a only supports PO files.
/* NSTextField (Failures) : <title:Failures> (oid:12) */
"Failures" = "Failures";
/* NSButton (Network Diagnostics) : <title:Network Diagnostics> (oid:71) */
"Network Diagnostics" = "Network Diagnostics";
These sites provide additional information about the strings format:
1.
http://www.wincent.com/a/knowledge-base/archives/2004/11/localization_on.php
2.
https://mailman.research.att.com/pipermail/graphviz-devel/2008/000725.html
3. http://www.arizona-software.ch/ilocalize/
4. http://www.simultrans.com/articledetail.cfm?PostingID=43
5. http://www.bean-osx.com/localization.html
What kind of information is needed for po4a in order to be able to support
the format?
You should first define what you would expect from po4a.
The reasons I can imagine are:
* You have a nice .strings editor, and you want po4a to generate and work
with .strings files instead of PO files.
* You want po4a to be able to extract the strings from a .strings and
generate a PO file, and be able to re-inject translations in the .strings
In both cases, I'm not sure po4a is suitable. A .strings <-> PO
converter would probably be much more useful.
Best Regards,
--
Nekral