Il 04/09/2014 00:20, Mattias Gaertner ha scritto:
On Thu, 04 Sep 2014 00:13:33 +0200
Giuliano Colla <[email protected]> wrote:
In recent Lazarus trunk versions it happens that translations marked as
"fuzzy" are ignored, and the untranslated string is shown.
Is this a bug to be notified, or a "feature"?
If it's a feature I find it rather questionable, because a fuzzy
translation is in most cases much better than no translation at all.
Maybe related:
http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=26619
Yes it's related, but in the wrong direction, IMHO.
I've investigated and it turns out to be a "feature". Quoting unit
lcl/translations.pas line 820:
//Load translation only if it exists and is NOT fuzzy.
//This matches gettext behaviour and allows to avoid a lot of crashes related
//to formatting arguments mismatches.
if (Item<>nil) and (pos('fuzzy', lowercase(Item.Flags))=0) then begin
[....]
What has happened in recent past is that there was a change of policy
for handling quotes and all translation files were submitted to a
substantial revision. Because of the consequent formatting argument
mismatches there was a lot of crashes, and the problem was raised.
But this was an exceptional situation, which may occur one or two times
in a decade, and which should never condition everyday activities.
The normal situation is that someone may correct a spelling error in a
string, or provide an extra detail, and this causes the translation to
become fuzzy.
What would have happened up to now was that the translation would have
still been the old one, what will happen from now on is that the
translation won't be used, and the untranslated string will be shown.
Lazarus attempts to provide professional quality, but can take advantage
only of voluntary work. One should take this fact into account when
making decisions. What would be perfectly reasonable in an enterprise
environment, becomes quite impractical in our reality.
Therefore my point is: please let live fuzzy translations, less we
provide too many untranslated strings which will discourage new (and
existing) users. When a Lazarus Foundation will exist, with a lot of
money to spend, and someone will be in charge of keeping translations
updated, I'll be the first to support a different policy.
Giuliano
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