[Wine] rc/po files

Charles Davis cdavis at mymail.mines.edu
Mon Apr 18 22:59:49 CDT 2011


On 4/18/11 9:57 PM, KenSharp wrote:
> *sigh*
> 
> As the links I provided point out, I sent a patch for a .po file with corrections, Alexandre told me to edit the .rc file instead.
> 
> I refer back to my original question:
> 
> In Wine specifically, why do we have both and why do we sometimes patch the .po files, and sometimes patch the .rc files?
Because dialogs are nigh impossible to express in PO files. It isn't
just the strings that have to be translated. Often times, the entire
dialog's layout has to be tweaked for each language.

Chip



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