GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 568132
Requesting support for Unicode NSIS installer script files
Last modified: 2012-03-16 12:39:43 UTC
For Planner I use the Nullsoft scriptable install system (as does Pidgin) and it would be great if intltool could be modified to support scripts for this system. The original NSIS does not support UTF-8, but the latest version of Unicode NSIS does (http://www.scratchpaper.com/nsis-2.42.2-Unicode-setup.exe). The scripting reference can be found at the following url: http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html#4.7
Created attachment 126683 [details] [review] Add markedquoted style to intltool The attached patch shows what I had in mind. Please review as I don't know Perl. It doesn't contain test cases yet. The advantage of this format compared to quoted-style is that only marked strings will be translated and that it supports comments for translators. The assumed comment marker is # at the moment and it is not configurable, but it may be common enough to be useful for more than just NSIS scripts. One thing though, the markings are not valid in NSIS scripts so I would have to process the input file myself to get the default english language file. I am not sure if this is acceptable, but I could not find a sufficiently unobtrusive way of marking that was valid NSIS scripting.
intltool has switched from the GNOME to the launchpad.net infrastructure nearly three years ago: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-i18n/2009-April/msg00275.html The intltool product in bugzilla.gnome.org has been deprecated and closed for new bug entry since April 2009. I am now closing all remaining open reports about intltool as NOTGNOME as part of GNOME Bugzilla Housekeeping. Reporter: If the problem that you reported here is still valid in a recent version of intltool we kindly ask you to report it again to https://bugs.launchpad.net/intltool/ so the intltool developers get notified about it.