Hello Martin, On Sat, Aug 20, 2022 at 10:43:23AM +0200, Martin Quinson wrote: > ----- Le 19 Aoû 22, à 21:13, Helge Kreutzmann [email protected] a écrit : > > > Package: po4a > > Version: 0.67-2 > > Severity: wishlist > > > > Since recently po4a-gettextize adds spaces at the end of strings > > during gettextisation, if strings occure multiple times in the master > > file (or translation). > > > > In production, multiple indentical strings in the original file are > > only stored once in the po file (as they are translated the same). > > > > Therefore, translators need to review those strings carefully and > > remove those entries from the po file, which have this final space > > added. In this process they need to choose the most appropriate > > translation to keep. > > > > Currently, this can be quite difficult, as the string can occur > > multiple times and the trailing space(s) are difficult to spot in > > large files. Also these trailing spaces are hard to get a good regular > > expression for searching. > > > > Therefor I kindly ask you if you could mark those strings in addition > > (!) with a suitable translator comment (e.g. "Potential duplicate > > string, review and consolidate"). This would users allow to use msggrep(1) > > with the option -C to filter them out for review. > > > > Thanks for considering. > > Your bug report makes me realize that the current behavior is perfectly > broken. I was hopping for the next msgmerge to merge the alternative > translations of the same msgid, but I realize that they will most probably be > dropped in the process.
Yes, that is what I noticed as well. (We just went through it at
manpages-l10n).
> Mmm. Let me think about it, I'll try to reimplement this thing so that the
> carful review that you describe becomes automatically done during the
> gettexization.
Thanks!
Greetings
Helge
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