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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: XML errors
From:       Karl Ove Hufthammer <karl () huftis ! org>
Date:       2009-04-20 9:02:36
Message-ID: gshdnd$j6c$1 () ger ! gmane ! org
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Martin Schlander:

>> Indeed. For the Norwegian translators, these statistics are now useless.
>> There is no way the translators are going to use a *text editor* to ‘fix'
>> strings; it is challenging enough for them to start using Lokalize.
> 
> Come on. Don't tell me translators can't edit a plaintext file with KWrite
> or Kate. Afterall they manage to use fullblown word processors don't they?

Of course they can. With the result often being an invalid PO file, because 
they entered a " by mistake, or forgot some other vital part of the PO 
syntax. This is based on experience, not speculation.

And as I said, why *should* they have to fix an ‘error' in a string, when it 
is actually not an error, because the string isn't actually used.

> Besides I personally consider fixing xml-erros mostly a job for the
> coordinator. It's too much work mailing po-files back and forth to fix one
> or two xml-errors in a file.

We work in a separate SVN repository, where all the translators have write 
access, not by e-maling files back and forth (doing so would be hugely 
ineffective).

-- 
Karl Ove Hufthammer



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