[maemo-developers] Maemo localization to officially non-supported languages

[From: Marius Vollmer]

"ext Mohammed Hassan" <mohammed.2.hassan at nokia.com> writes:

> What I'd propose is we/I replace the logical IDs with Engineering
> English in the POT files you use to translate and convert them back
> upon packaging and building.

One immediate problem I see with this is that multiple logical ids can
map to the same Engineering English string, so you can't reliably
reverse the mapping.

(Also, the code itself should start using Engineering English itself,
of course, to make it more useful to external developers that don't
have the UI specs, and because that is how God intended it to be
done. :-)

It would be interesting to take our current translations and mine them
for the logical ids that map to the same Engineering English, but at
the same time have different translations in some language.  These are
the cases where we would need to use the "menu|Open" construct in the
code instead of the existing Engineering English string.  Identifying
and handling these cases is where I see a large part of the effort
needed to move away from logical ids, so it would be good to get an
overview.

Once that has been dealt with, we could consider using your scheme, or
we could consider Engineering English instead of logical ids
everyhwere in our processes.