[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] 

List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: [RFC] =?iso-8859-15?q?Untranslat=E1ble_strings_and_message?=
From:       Nicolas Goutte <nicolasg () snafu ! de>
Date:       2003-12-26 11:12:55
[Download RAW message or body]

Forget this email, sorry for the noise. (Reason: "fuzzy" keeps the strings 
untranslated.)

On Friday 26 December 2003 11:23, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> In KDE, it was always told that untranslatable strings were not bound to
> message freeze, as the worst what could happen was that the original
> untranslated string is shown.
>
> Well, that is simply not true. There is the automatical translation, which
> might override the original string with something totally unrelated,
> otherwise wrong or even duplicate translations.
>
> One example is bug #70211: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70211    
>
> Another example is something I have just found (and there are much more of
> them in the Germain kivio.po):
>
> #: rc.cpp:452
> #, fuzzy
> msgid ""
> "_: Stencils\n"
> "Geometric - Pentagon"
> msgstr "Schablonen-Geometrieleiste"
>
> #: rc.cpp:453
> #, fuzzy
> msgid ""
> "_: Stencils\n"
> "Geometric - Hexagon"
> msgstr "Schablonen-Geometrieleiste"
>
>
> The "translation" has *nothing* to do with what has to be translated. (Just
> 2 word match with a translation "floating" around.)
>
> So it means that even to have an untranslated version, the I18N team has to
> do some work! That is not what is supposed to be when untranslatable
> strings are introduced in a message freeze, especially not when introduced
> very late (as now for the Kivio stencils' tilles and descriptions.)
>
> Therefore I wonder if the current policy of untranslatable strings can be
> kept. I do not think so.
>
> As for the present case of the Kivio strings, I would recommend that they
> would be left as it in KOFFICE_1_3_BRANCH (i.e. without a translation of
> the stencils.)
>
> Have a nice day!
>
> _______________________________________________
> koffice-devel mailing list
> koffice-devel@mail.kde.org
> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/koffice-devel

_______________________________________________
koffice-devel mailing list
koffice-devel@mail.kde.org
https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/koffice-devel

[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread]