Re: Debian Debconf Translation proposal ( again )

[Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@raw.no>]

*  (Denis Barbier)

| On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 10:31:26PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
| [...]
| > And I've often picked up translators making small technical mistakes,
| > such as .po file header entries or encodings, that didn't require me to
| > know anything about the language.
| 
| These errors are normally detected at build time (i.e. gettext tools print
| error messages).  You caught them, but they would also be caught by the
| one building a package containing all translations, so this is not
| really a valuable argument.

Yeah, like somebody butchering all the non-ASCII characters in one of
the latest norwegian translations in apt.  So, those problems do slip
by both translators and package maintainers.

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