Re: Translating The GIMP

[Karl Eichwalder <keichwa gmx net>]

"R.I.P. Deaddog" <maddog@linuxhall.org> writes:

> No, it's not a simple merging; what needs to be done is compare the
> quality of different translations, and select the best one for each
> entry individually....... no tool in the world can help me :_:

'msgcat' can :)  From the new gettext manual:

   By default, `msgcat' will accumulate divergent translations for the
same string.  Those occurences will be marked as `fuzzy' and highly
visible decorated; calling `msgcat' on `file1.po':

     #: src/hello.c:200
     #, c-format
     msgid "Report bugs to <%s>.\n"
     msgstr "Comunicar `bugs' a <%s>.\n"

and `file2.po':

     #: src/bye.c:100
     #, c-format
     msgid "Report bugs to <%s>.\n"
     msgstr "Comunicar \"bugs\" a <%s>.\n"

will result in:

     #: src/hello.c:200 src/bye.c:100
     #, fuzzy, c-format
     msgid "Report bugs to <%s>.\n"
     msgstr ""
     "#-#-#-#-#  file1.po  #-#-#-#-#\n"
     "Comunicar `bugs' a <%s>.\n"
     "#-#-#-#-#  file2.po  #-#-#-#-#\n"
     "Comunicar \"bugs\" a <%s>.\n"

The translator will have to resolve this "conflict" manually; she has
to decide whether the first or the second version is appropriate (or
provide a new translation), to delete the "marker lines", and finally
to remove the `fuzzy' mark.

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Of course, you can use some magic of PO files pre-processiong (removving
comment, sorting) and diff'ing, too.  Last: never forget Emacs/ediff
when it comes to the task to compare text files.

Hope this help (gimp deserves every helping hand! -- such a delightful
piece of software that it's worth to improve it further :) ).

Karl

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