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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: KGeography needs your help
From:       Albert Astals Cid <tsdgeos () yahoo ! es>
Date:       2005-11-12 13:27:41
Message-ID: 200511121427.41802.tsdgeos () yahoo ! es
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A Dissabte 12 Novembre 2005 13:38, Kevin Donnelly va escriure:
> On Saturday 12 November 2005 10:16, Malcolm Hunter wrote:
> > On Tuesday 02 Aug 2005 19:30, you wrote:
> > > Ok, as i've gathered from nobody updating their translations for
> > > kgeography and from a few people already commenting me either on the
> > > list or via a private mail that the .po size is too big.
> >
> > Any chance you could split the file into two parts? One requiring
> > translation, the other only if required for the translator's language.
>
> Malcolm: This is a seductive possibility, and should probably be done, but
> I would have thought that most of the file needs translating anyway, if
> only to regularise orthography.

My take is, why separate? I mean you can translate GUI only if you want and 
leave other entrys untranslated or just translate it to the same.

> Albert: One way of cutting down the size might be to review whether we need
> repeating entries (eg entries for a country in the Europe section, and the
> same entries in the World section).  I vaguely recall a discussion 6 months
> ago about adding the .kgm qualifiers for the entries (I think the reason
> was to disambiguate identical placenames?), but this leads to bloat in the
> file. Would it not be better to get rid of the .kgm entries, and
> disambiguate via additions to the name (eg Paris (Texas) and Paris
> (France)?

I disagree, i mean, if you are in Europe map, you don't want to get Paris 
(France) as a string, you only want Paris, imagine you where in a tellme the 
capital of and you get
Tellme the capital of France:
Madrid
London
Paris (France)
Moscow

:-D 

Albert

		
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