[sane-devel] Where is the define of SANE_I18N

[DanTan at pek.destiny.com.cn]

Hi Olaf,

I got it.
Thank you for your explain.


On 5 Jul 2017, at 7:52 PM, Olaf Meeuwissen <paddy-hack at member.fsf.org<mailto:paddy-hack at member.fsf.org>> wrote:

Hi,

DanTan at pek.destiny.com.cn<mailto:DanTan at pek.destiny.com.cn> writes:

Hey guys,

I have working on the source code of sane-backends, I found the macro
SANE_I18N is used to sane’s localization. But I just found the follow
lines of it’s define

#ifndef SANE_I18N
#define SANE_I18N(text) text
#endif

The above lines, dose nothing. So I wonder how SANE_I18N translate
these backends?

The backends don't translate.  It's the responsibility of the *frontend*
to translate the strings.  The SANE_I18N macro is only the marker we use
to tell xgettext which strings should be translated.  These strings end
up in po/sane-backends.pot.

The reasoning behind making the frontend responsible for translation is
that the backend may be executing remotely (e.g. via saned).  You don't
want to get the translations suitable for a remotely executing process.
This process may execute under a different LANG setting than your local
SANE frontend.

Let's say you run your frontend with LANG=zh_CN and scan via the net
backend on a server that just happens to run saned with LANG=fr_FR.
Would you be happy with French messages?  Probably not ;-)

Hope this helps,
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