$ before string literals

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samsam598
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$ before string literals

Post by samsam598 »

Greetings!

Just noticed from ide/src/design/codeEditor.ec that,and was wondering what's the advantage using $ before string literals?

Thanks.

Regards,
Sam
jerome
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Re: $ before string literals

Post by jerome »

Hi Sam,

This is for internationalization purposes.

Strings that are meant to be internationalized have $ before them, and they will show up in the translation templates (the .pot files).
It is also possible to specify a context this way: $"context"."English string"

I thought I emailed you about the translations before? :)

Check out the translation system @ https://translations.launchpad.net/ecere/trunk

Cheers! :D

Jerome
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