Re: Please be careful with string changes
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 10:10:46AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> OK, the string freeze is over, so cosmetic changes to templates is now
> OK.
>
> But, please be kind to translators, if possible.
>
> For instance (Matt, this is for you...:-)), when replacing "Select a
> Keyboard Layout" by "Select a keyboard layout" in kbd-chooser
> templates, it is very likely that this does NOT affect translations,
> as translators know how to capitalize things in their languages.
>
>
> Thus, when doing such changes, please consider "unfuzzification" of
> the debian/po/*.po files. This is not a trivial thing to do, so if
> unsure, it may be better to file a bug report....
>
> Unfuzzification in this case means?:
>
> 1) sed 's/Select a Keyboard Layout/Select a keyboard layout/g' on all
> PO files
>
> 2) run debconf-updatepo
>
> 1, then 2 is mandatory.
>
> I did this for netcfg and kbd-chooser, modified last night by Matt.
Thank you for the instructions, and for cleaning up after me.
I'll follow your instructions in the future.
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Matt Kraai kraai@ftbfs.org
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