On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 6:36 AM, Pádraig Brady <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for doing that. > I really like this, but wouldn't it invalidate all the existing translations? > It seems there would be a lot of work in transitioning coreutils usage() > functions > to the scheme, but even more work munging existing translations?
Existing translations should remain (though marked fuzzy). Translators just need to go through remove redundant parts. The thing is translations should be updated anyway because of misalignment (I only checked ja and vi). We could use this opportunity to avoid potential work for translators later (e.g. a new long option is added and the whole table needs to be realigned, which currently changes every help string, or a misalign in original strings propagated to all translations). -- Duy
