Re: Do not touch l10n files
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 01:10:35AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 12:22:27AM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote:
> > On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 02:02:27PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> > > This is a far cry from ``Do not touch l10n files''.
> >
> > Hey, this was the subject, I had to get it short. My original post
> > contained the following paragraph:
> > So I would like to ask developers not to edit l10n files (templates,
> > PO files, etc) themselves; if you believe that something goes wrong,
> > notify the translator or his translation team (or any other trusted
> > person). If you disagree, think twice before applying your changes,
> > you are certainly wrong.
>
> Oh, rubbish. I won't claim to be able to deal with l10n files in every
> language under the sun, but I'm familiar enough with several European
> languages to be able to correct minor errors, make cautious small
> updates when something has changed globally, and so on.
And you could also have mentioned that you pointed out an error I made
when merging two translations. Of course I am grateful to developers
who take care of l10n, but from my experience I was corrected once and
my files were corrupted many times.
Again my complaint goes against people who do not fully understand
foreign languages and believe that they know what they should look
like, see e.g.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-l10n-french/2003/debian-l10n-french-200305/msg00161.html
> As long as I'm careful, I believe that this improves the state of
> l10n. Sure, I'll usually remember to tell the translator about it too,
> but I have many things to do, and translations are often the last
> thing I do before making a release in order to make sure that they're
> as up to date as possible so I'm often in a hurry.
>
> Perhaps this is just a translation problem itself, but "you are
> certainly wrong" has an incredibly arrogant tone.
As said above this assumption is based on my own statistics, others
may differ.
Denis
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