Introducing separate strings for quick bar items

[Roland Illig]

Egmont Koblinger wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 08:18:20PM +0200, Roland Illig wrote:
>>What about "ButtonBar:Quit" or 
>>"ButtonBar|Quit"? This scheme would also be extensible to other special 
>>cases, like menu strings, dialog boxes, etc.
> 
> Nice idea. If it gets widely used in mc, we could even introduce wrapper
> functions around _() that return a pointer skipping up to (including) the
> first separator character so that we don't have to type "strchr(s, '|') + 1"
> over and over again.

This would result in a function like this:

const char *translate_ui (const char *s)
{
     const char *result = _(s);
     if (result == s) {
         result = strchr(s, '|');
         return (result != NULL) ? result + 1 : s;
     }
     return result;
}

> I'm not sure at this moment (it's too late in the evening) whether such
> things can be done around N_(). Doesn't seem to be trivial.

It is not needed. N_ is just an indicator for gettext(1) for considering 
which strings should be translated. Finally, each string declared using 
N_ must be passed through gettext() anyway.

Roland