Re: D-I Manual - String freeze / Call to update translations (deadline: Feb 10)

[Clytie Siddall <clytie@riverland.net.au>]

On 30/01/2008, at 4:06 AM, Yuri Kozlov wrote:

> 2008/1/29, Changwoo Ryu <cwryu@debian.org>:
> > 2008-01-28 (월), 21:25 +0300, Yuri Kozlov 쓰시길:
> > > 2008/1/28, Clytie Siddall <clytie@riverland.net.au>:
> > > > Also, Frans, would you please consider using msgid-previous? This
> > > > gettext feature shows the translator a diff between the previous  
> > > > and
> > > > current string, which is particularly useful when the string is  
> > > > long
> > > > or complex. It's ideal for doc translations.
> > >
> > > Clytie, you can see the diff with 'svn diff' command.
> > > svn diff -rPREV installation-howto.po
> >
> > Well, diff output is not very useful for PO files. Updating PO files
> > causes different line wrapping, updating automatic comments and  
> > source
> > line numbers, reordering entries, etc, etc... Diff on PO files has  
> > such
> > verbose stuffs (useless for translators).
>
> Simple search the 'fuzzy' word in the diff is get wanted place.
> I like it :)

What I like is when the developer uses msgid-previous, because then my  
PO editor [1] displays the previous and current strings as a  
highlighted diff, within the PO file. Very handy. :)

from Clytie

Vietnamese Free Software Translation Team
http://vnoss.net/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=projects:l10n

[1] LocFactoryEditor, unfortunately only available for Mac OSX
http://www.triplespin.com/en/products/locfactoryeditor.html