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

[Ben Hetland <ben a hetland sintef no>]

Cyrille Chepelov wrote:

> Le Thu, Jun 10, 2004, Ã  11:23:10AM +0200, fenxp free fr a écrit:
> > <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"

Why can't it just be specified as an "untranslatable" string instead then?

The name (string) could even be something internal, like the "class 
name" or chosen name prefix used for the "objects" functions in the 
source code. (I.e., consider it just another identifier, like the "type" 
string of the 'name' attribute in the above example.) That way it 
doesn't even depend on the English name, and one would be free to rename 
even that later.

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