Call for translators

Michael Stefaniuc mstefani at redhat.com
Mon May 31 09:08:51 CDT 2010


Frédéric Delanoy wrote:
> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 13:20, Michael Stefaniuc <mstefani at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Ideally wrc should be able to
>> calculate the needed resource size too; though no clue how much effort
>> that would be.
>>
>>        michael
> 
> Well auto-calculating resource size might be no problematic: think
> - multi-line strings might need to be split at different places
> - sometimes other dialog elements may have to be moved as well (Fr
> sentences are generally somewhat/much longer than En equivalents for
> instance)
Automatic resource size calculation doesn't precludes adding the
possibility of a manual override.

> Additionally, tools like ResHacker (to easily visually alter
> size/strings/...) might be unusable without some sort of preprocessing
> if all resources are migrated to a po file.
ResHacker will work like always. wrc will still generate .res files;
ideally barring any fixes the SHA1 of the generated res files will be
the same before and after the move to PO files.

bye
	michael



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