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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: utilty script percentupdate_xml
From:       Burkhard =?iso-8859-1?q?L=FCck?= <lueck () hube-lueck ! de>
Date:       2010-06-03 18:51:12
Message-ID: 201006032051.12821.lueck () hube-lueck ! de
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Am Donnerstag, 3. Juni 2010, um 11:54:39 schrieb Freek de Kruijf:
> Op woensdag 2 juni 2010 22:29:57 schreef Burkhard Lück:
> > Am Mittwoch, 2. Juni 2010, um 09:00:07 schrieb Freek de Kruijf:
> > Why it is neccesary for the percentupdate_xml?
> > You don't know which untranslated message is in your lang docbook, and
> > any english message can contain any entity from en/user.entities, so you
> > need all these entities in your user.entities.
> > 
> > Why the sync has to be done anyway?
> > E.g. to avoid trouble like with the partman entity.
> > If you don't use them that doesn't matter and has no influence on your
> > translation. If you want to use the entity translate its value to your
> > language or leave this value in english, just as you like, but the entity
> > should be there.
> > 
> > Why here are no objections?
> > No idea...
> 
> I entered this business of generating docbooks just half a year ago. From
> my predecessor I got the procedure to generate these docbooks by hand.
> There was no requirement of 100% translation. So what I found were partly
> translated documents.
> 
> Once when I was generating a document I got the warning that an Entity was
> not available in the Dutch Entity definitions and that the English
> definition was going to be used. So my question is: Is this recently
> changed or am I mixing up different files with Entity definitions?

The latter I presume.

When you try to generate a language docbook using update_xml this script will 
fail and revert index.docbook if the translation text has an entity not defined 
in language/user.entities.

I guess you are refering to these entities described in the commit log making 
the doc footer translatable:
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-commits&m=121909477803428&w=2


-- 
Burkhard Lück

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