From kde-devel  Thu Jun 03 22:27:16 1999
From: Stephan Kulow <coolo () alpha ! tat ! physik ! uni-tuebingen ! de>
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 22:27:16 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: i18n in KDE-1.1 branch (kmail)
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Daniel Naber wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 31 May 1999, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> 
> > > marked fuzzy. I think Stephan has the final word on saying if manually
> > > going trough the files is okay (I think it would be).
> > >
> > Yes, but someone has to do it.
> 
> What exaclty would this mean? Would I have to change the kmail.pot
> file or all kmail.po files? If the latter, this would be too much work
> for just 5 spelling fixes. Otherwise IŽll do it.

The latter. i18n looks for the english text to lookup the translations.
So if you break the english, you break the lookup.

Greetings, Stephan

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Und sie nannten ihn, wie er selbst unterschrieb -
Den Trojanischen Pferdedieb