On Sa, 2007-04-14 at 13:09 +0200, Erdal Ronahi wrote: > Hi, > > when using the translate-toolkit and Pootle I frequently come across > warnings and error messages that "XML tags should not be translated". > This refers to strings like > > <None> > > for instance in sw / source / ui / index.po > > Should they be translated of left alone? Are they really XML tags? > > Regards, > Erdal
Hi Erdal Yes, pofilter has it's limitations. It is a bit difficult to know that <None> is not an XML tag :-) We are continuously working on improving the quality of the pofilter checks. Clytie reported a few limitations in two reports in our bugzilla (many of them has since been fixed). For reference: http://bugs.wordforge.org/show_bug.cgi?id=178 http://bugs.wordforge.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215 Recently we started making pofilter language aware, for example to understand the punctuation styles of different languages. Currently only a few languages have been described, but hopefully people will help us improve that. With all this said, translators should understand that there might be false positives, and use own judgement where necessary. Some checks are almost guaranteed to indicate translation errors, while others might be more likely to be false error reports in some cases. Certain tests are also more useful for certain languages than for others. Still, pofilter remains a useful tool to direct the review time in the directions where it is more likely to be of use. It is expendable to contain more tests, and adaptable to understand your language. Please help us to improve it to make version 1.0 maximally useful to as many languages as possible. Regards Friedel --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
