[Plone-i18n] Re: ANN: PloneTranslations-2.1-beta released

[Gerry K. <ge...@fa...>]

Filip Miletic wrote:
> Gerry Kirk wrote:
> 
>>I see that as a problem with the .po file, but not the .pot file.
> 
> 
> There are some problems with putting the original English text in the
> msgstrs of the .pot, as opposed to putting it in the comment:
> 
> 1) As the msgstr's are already filled when you begin, you cannot
> automate counting the number of translated and fuzzy strings.
> 2) The only reference to the English text is that of the msgstr, which
> you _overwrite_ when translating. It is not possible to revert to an
> already translated string and improve, without referring somewhere else.
> Note there are the "#." comments, but they often contain more text than
> what you need to translate, so they are not straightforward.
> 3) As all the strings are 'translated', you cannot use msgmerge to fetch
> canned translations from your database.
> 
> Introducing the "##" comment fixes these three, at the expense of not
> being able to 'clone' the translation from the English original.
> 
> While this tradeoff might be annoying for the translators to varieties
> of English (-uk, -ca etc.) since they would like to make only minimal
> changes to the text, it does not matter to anyone else as the
> translations will be much different from the English original anyway.
> 
> 
>>I don't see this new comment in the latest plone.pot or in, say
>>plone-fr.po.
>>These should get copied to the .po files then, so that you don't need to
>>refer to the .pot file when translating. That would be nice.
> 
> 
> I have recently completed a translation based upon the .pot file with
> the "## English translation:" comments. It worked fine. So if you cannot
> see it, you might be looking at the old pot files.
> 
Ah, they weren't showing on the first few translations of the pot file. 
Now I see them. :)

- Gerry