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

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

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.  
> > > 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  
> (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  
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  
> 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 / nhóm  
Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN

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