Re: Announce of the upcoming NMU for the isoqlog package
Hi Bruno,
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 04:29:57PM +0100, Bruno Haible wrote:
> > Dear maintainer of isoqlog and Debian translators,
>
> I was BCCed because the de.po file contains this:
>
> "Project-Id-Version: iso_639 CVS\n"
> ...
> "Last-Translator: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>\n"
>
> But I am not and was never a translator for the isoqlog package. I'm only
> a translator for the iso_639 domain. The German translator for isoqlog must
> be someone else.
You still have a lot to do, only 4% are translated: 358t;3827f;3417u
Also Wolfgang Rohdewald is mentioned as last translator.
(According to http://www.debian.org/intl/l10n/po/de, package iso-codes.)
> The fix is: Please use the original iso_639 domain, and change your
> program to use the 'dgettext' function instead of the 'gettext' function
> for this domain. Then remove the iso_639 messages from the isoqlog package.
Duplicating such strings into multiple PO files is indeed really bad. I once
checked the iso-codes strings (used by localechooser) and it was a really
nightmare, so many countries ... :-(
Jens
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