On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 09:11:08PM +0300, Tommi Vainikainen wrote: > On 2005-09-24T16:47:59+0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I also read a mail of Clytie on this list, where he noticed that GNOME > > contains often the typo "occured". Immediately after this I started > > fixing it (and other typos) accross all languages for a few modules. > > After I was informed that this is not wished (it was not critism, only a > > hint in a reply of one of my messages to the German GNOME team) I > > stopped it and never touched it again. As you may think this typo still > > occurs very often and in many languages. > > An other guy should care about this, I wont in GNOME ... > > How can typo be same in all languages? Or do you mean that a "po" file > contains original string with typo, if so, that is autogenerated and > when such typo is fixed in the source code message, translators need > to unfuzzy their strings which isn't big task.
Right. I worried about this. The answer I got from a German maintainer was that GNOME has sufficient translators and it is their job to unfuzzy translations not my job! > However if the translators do the unfuzzying, then there won't be any > CVS conflicts et cetera. > > Lets hope that people continue scanning files for common and easy > > scriptable errors. I remembered that I have my own batch of scripts and I'm running these at the moment. I found already s/etx2/ext2/ (Clytie, these are your bugs), s/DCHP/DHCP/, s/OepnFirmware/OpenFirmware/, ... I will perform proper action on these (reporting per mail or committing, lets see). > Someone should patch msgfmt to have an ability to check d-installer's > kind of messages, aren't those standard Perl? There is already the > c-format flag for messages in the po format. This would help with half > of the problems. Right. > Translators validate their translations with 'V' in the Emacs' po mode > or similar with other tools, do they? But I'm a vi user :-)) Jens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
