Re: [Translation-i18n] [translate-pootle] translating via an intermediate language

[Clytie S. <cl...@ri...>]

On 09/11/2006, at 5:38 AM, Mike Butler wrote:

> Way way way back - on the 9th of October, I accidentally sent this to
> Clytie instead of the list...  As it contains some questions for
> Bruno, I'm reposting it...

It was a fruitful thread, although that's a weird metaphor...
>
> On the 5th of October, Clytie quoted Bruno saying :
>>> "Previous msgids" will be a new feature in gettext 0.15.1. =20
>>> Quoting the
>>> NEWS file:
>>
>> Thanks, Bruno!
>>
>> Now I just need to talk my friendly translation editor developer into
>> wdiffing the strings and highlighting the differences. ;)
>
> Sorry about the delay in replying -  the (Nationwide) ISP I use =20
> (sort of) went
> bankrupt(!) so I was without full access for a while!  And it's still
> not great!
> ( And then the midterms hit :-)

We all have trouble with time: somebody should vote us all a Catch-Up =20=

Day. ;)

>
> Clytie:
> So I added support for previous msgid's to the beta track of
> LocFactory Editor 2  ( And by extension Mac PO Editor 1 ).
> And, just for Clytie, it highlights the added and
> removed words ( though without using wdiff itself ).  Any =20
> volunteers for
> beta testing?

Me! Me! :D

This is going to make dpkg's help screens SO much easier to update.
>
> Bruno :
> Just a quick question for Bruno - due to the problems that I
> mentioned, I haven't been able to look at gettext 0.15.1, so I haven't
> seen a full description of the feature -  so what do multiline and
> plural previous msgid id's look like?  Do they look like normal
> msgid's but with the #| start or do they have a prefix on every line?
>
It's gettext-0.16 now: lots of new and exciting developments!

from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nh=C3=B3m =
=20
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