[OTR-dev] OTR static strings and html stuff

Tue May 6 13:51:07 EDT 2008

I agree on both points, Kjell! I'm not an OTR dev but I know the  
library fairly well and would be happy to help review a patch if  
you're volunteering to write it :)

Cheers,
Evan

On May 6, 2008, at 12:44 PM, Kjell Braden <fnord at pentabarf.de> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> As I'm currently actively working on getting OTR-encryption working  
> for
> gajim (see [1]), I've stumbled upon some annoyances in current libotr.
>
> 1.) basically all strings used in OTR for user interfaces contain  
> HTML.
> This is very bad because it breaks CLI clients or clients that don't
> send HTML over <body> tags in XMPP (*wink* pidgin-otr)
> 2.) none of those strings are translatable! IMHO libotr should not use
> human-readable text at all but pass error codes which should be
> translated to human-readable text by the implementing application.  
> This
> would integrate with all localisation methods as well as gives
> HTML-enabled clients the possibility to use HTML.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
> Kjell