On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 10:50:11PM +0100, Tim Dijkstra wrote: [...] > > Dealing with only one type of comments is certainly much simpler, but > > then source comments should IMO be displayed. > > Did you find valuable translators' comments? ;) > > IIRC some po-debconf files seem to have some hints to the translator in > #-comments. Well maybe I remember wrong and they were actually in > #.-comments.
You are right, hints at the top are normal comments. They are of course worth reading, but OTOH never change. > > When translating into French we try to follow Christian's Debconf > > Templates Style Guide > > http://people.debian.org/~bubulle/dtsg.txt > > and thus knowing the templates type is important; e.g. descriptions of > > boolean or string templates do not follow the same rules. > > Hmm, okay... > > Well either way, it can't be that difficult. I'll have a look at it > later this week. Many thanks. Denis
