Re: [Gimp-developer] heads up to translators

2006-09-14 Thread Sven Neumann 
Hi,

on gnome-i18n someone suggested a command to detect the problem that I
outlined earlier in this thread. Here's a version that is subtly changed
for the GIMP source tree:

  pcregrep -M -l 'msgid.*\|.*\nmsgstr.*\|' po*/*.po

Unfortunately this doesn't work because at least in the main translation
domain, there are strings that cause false positives.  If someone could
come up with a better command to detect the affected translations, we
could file bug-reports for them in the l10n product on Bugzilla. That
would probably help to make sure that the problem is taken care of
before 2.4.


Sven


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[Gimp-developer] heads up to translators

2006-09-13 Thread Sven Neumann 
Hi,

not sure if I can reach a lot of translators here, but the ones who are
reading the gnome-i18n list should already be aware of this issue...

We have started to use translation contexts in GIMP. Only in a couple of
places so far, but we will probably extend this to more strings. The
idea of translation context is that one string can have different
meanings depending on the context it is being used in. And this string
is likely to have different translations depending on the context. The
solution to this problem is to add some context for the translators. You
will find strings such as:

  gradient|Linear
  interpolation|Linear

The first is a linear gradient as used with the Blend tool. The second
is linear interpolation as used in the Scale dialogs. Now if you are
translating such a string, you must not include the translation context
in the translation. There are several translations in CVS that got this
wrong. For example:

 #: ../libgimpbase/gimpbaseenums.c:388
 msgid gradient|Linear
 msgstr degradado|Lineal

 #: ../libgimpbase/gimpbaseenums.c:563
 msgid interpolation|Linear
 msgstr interpolación|Lineal

This needs to be changed to:

 #: ../libgimpbase/gimpbaseenums.c:388
 msgid gradient|Linear
 msgstr Lineal

 #: ../libgimpbase/gimpbaseenums.c:563
 msgid interpolation|Linear
 msgstr Lineal

So please review your translations and take care that these issues are
fixed before 2.4.

Oh, and please, don't start a discussion about this. This is the
established technique for adding context to translations. It is
supported by GLib and used throughout the GNOME project.


Sven

PS: Perhaps someone wants to update the README.i18n file for this?


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