Translating the pane labels as I did in r13179 (https://sourceforge.net/p/codeblocks/code/13179/) works, but has a nasty side effect: When saving the perspective the translated labels are saved, overwriting the original english labels that get lost forever.
In brief, the first time you select a non-english language the labels will get stuck in said language and you will not be able to see them in other language.
I am thinking about reverting r13179, this would leave the AUI panes' labels permanently in english, but at least they will not be in russian as I have them currently with all other texts in spanish.
Ideas? Opinions?
As you know, these strings are saved in a .conf file, default.conf for me (in items caption=something).
Do you know why has been made this choice ? other strings are translated on the fly, but why not these ones ?
Apparently, they are recreated at the next C::B start, if you delete the default.conf, but this is not a good solution because you loose all other config adjustements !
May be you can recreate those strings, and only them, keeping all other settings, when you change the interface language.
Will keeping different personalities for each language work for you?
That, at least, will write a separate .conf file for each language.
Are you talking about these pieces of XML in the default.conf file?it is possible to move these language-related pieces to the lang/en subfolder; lang/fr; lang/it.
default.conf
lang/
it.xml
en.xml
Can we import an XML file into another XML file? (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5121052/can-we-import-xml-file-into-another-xml-file)
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I have (sort of) fixed this issue restoring the english captions if no translation is active. As described in r13399 (https://sourceforge.net/p/codeblocks/code/13399/), to unlock the captions properly the steps are:
1.- If you want to go back to english, disable I18n (in Environment/View), reopen C::B and save the perspective.
2.- If you want to change from one translation to another, switch to english (see 1) and then reenable I18n with the new translation.
Thanks to those who commented.