On 11/10/2006, at 4:26 AM, Amos Batto wrote (in part):
I noticed that PoEdit has a function (Alt + C) to directly copy the string from the msgid to msgstr, so I think that a COPY flag would be used by a lot of translators (not just people working with indigenous languages like Quechua).
I would think any popular PO editor would do that: LocFactoryEditor and Pootle, the offline and online editors I use, certainly do. This function isn't just useful for languages with loan words: it's important for strings with complex placeholders or formatting.
My language doesn't have any English loan words, and I'd probably hit Opt-Cmd-0 (Copy original string to translation field) for 10% of strings overall.
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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