Changes between Version 19 and Version 20 of Internationalization

Timestamp:

Apr 26, 2014, 3:59:53 PM (10 years ago)

Author:

Adrián Chaves

Comment:

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Internationalization

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 == Internationalizing Captions By Parts ==
 You might need to internationalize only parts of a caption. This is the case when, for translators’ sake, you want to mark each paragraph of a multiline caption for translation, or when you want to strip out formatting content (such as "[font]" tags) from the translatable content.
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+== Defining a Translation Comment ==
+
+Translation comments are comments defined by developers that help translators understand the meaning of an English string, or details on how to proceed when translating.
+
+To define a translation comment in an XML element, simply define a `comment` attribute with the translation comment. For example:
+
+{{{
+<object type="label">
+    <translatableAttribute id="caption" comment="Label for the code of
+        the locale that the game is currently using, such as ‘en_US’."
+        >Locale:</translatableAttribute>
+</object>
+}}}
+
 == Internationalizing !JavaScript Code Within GUI XML Files ==
 Simply put: '''you cannot'''.