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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: Any comment on breaking string freeze again?
From:       Erik =?utf-8?q?Kj=C3=A6r_Pedersen?= <erik () binghamton ! edu>
Date:       2006-05-08 10:27:55
Message-ID: 200605080627.56225.erik () binghamton ! edu
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Mandag 08. maj 2006 03:57 skrev Tom Albers:
> Could someone clarify what would be a problem? In all the years I've
> followed this list I can not recall any objections to breaking the string
> freeze, except when you are near a deadline.
>
> That means we can skip the hassle and lift the freeze alltogether?

The problems is that when a string is changed in a tiny way which has happened 
so often, then every translation becomes fuzzy, and if it is released that 
way the user does not see those as translated.

So when a hundred periods were added in koffice right before release those 
hundred strings would have come out in English if they were not discovered 
and fixed by the translators before release. I know this was a mistake, but 
nevertheless, it illustrates the problem.

New strings do not present a similar problem. They were not there in the first 
place and an English string does no more harm than  no string I suppose. It 
is nevertheless preferable to have a period before release with complete 
freeze so we get a chance of being completely translated at release.

Erik
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