Hi,

2014.12.14 02:43, jonathon wrote:
> On 13/12/14 21:45, Khaled Hosny wrote:
>
>>> Changes made in one dialect of one language should neither affect, nor
>>> effect changes in other dialects of the same language, much less other
>>> languages.
>> Huh? English (US) is the “source” language, 
> Treating en_US, en_DE, en_UK, or any variant thereof as the "source"
> language is, at best, translation mismanagement.

No. Translation mismanagement was propagating these cosmetic changes to
Pootle without having automatically updated localized Gettext files.

> The more fundamental error is assuming that what is in source is
> consistently en_US, or any other en_* variant.

It should be. You can look at it the other way around: anything that
gets in the source should consistently be en_US, not just
whatever_lingo_the_developer_had_in_mind.

Rimas


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