Re: Save an attribute of a drop-down list item

[Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 13:44, Cyrille Chepelov wrote:
> Le Thu, Jun 10, 2004, Ã  11:23:10AM +0200, fenxp free fr a écrit:
> > When you save a Diagram with format .Dia uncompressed,
> > the value of a item of an drop-down list is saved as an integer.
> > This is an example:
> > 
> > <dia:attribute name="type">
> >    <dia:enum val="0"/>
> > </dia:attribute>
> > 
> > Is that possible to save the value of the attribute instead of the value of the
> > index ?
> > 
> > I would like to have a thing of this kind:
> > 
> > <dia:attribute name="type">
> >    <dia:string>#Normal step#</dia:string>
> > </dia:attribute>
> 
> you can't have that. "Normal step"  would typically be specified as a
> translatable constant string (N_("Normal step")), which means that in
> your locale, you'd actually save "Etape normale", and nobody but people
> using a subset of LC_ALL=fr would be able to reload your diagram.

Couldn't we temporarily set LC_ALL=C while reading and writing these, so
it always uses the English version?  We do similar things for the
decimal points.

-Lars