r12208 - gnucash/trunk - Mark budget strings for i18n

[Chris Shoemaker]

On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 02:54:54PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Quoting Chris Shoemaker <c.shoemaker at cox.net>:
> 
> 
> >Your brief explanation is better than the glib docs, but I still don't
> >understand what would cause a string marked N_("...") to eventually be
> >translated.
> 
> Something calls "_()" on the string later in the process.  For example,
> you might want to delay the translation until later in the process.
> I hope the following (made-up) example helps clear it up for you:

I think it does.

> 
> void foo(const char*msg)
> {
>  ...
>  display_string(_(msg));
>  ...
> }

I suppose this was meant to be:
void display_string(const char *msg)
{
  foo(_(msg));
}

I wish the glib docs were wikified.  I'd add these explanations.  Thanks.

-chris

> 
> void bar(int state)
> {
>  ...
>  switch (state) {
>  case STATE_1:
>    display_string(N_("In State 1");
>    break;
>  case STATE_2:
>    display_string(N_("In State 2");
>    break;
>  ...
>  }
>  ...
> }
> 
> -derek
> 
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