Re: Glossary update

[Christian Rose <menthos menthos com>]

Michael Twomey wrote:
> There is a README in gnome-i18n/glossary which gives quick instructions
> on editing the glossary. To quickly get going just run "./csv-to-pot.sh
> GnomeGlossary.csv > mylang.po".

Thanks!!! :)
This will make the glossary creating part much easier. I tried
csv-to-pot-sh with a Swedish translation memory (thanks also to Karl
Eichwalder for creting those translation memory tools) and I suddenly
had:

527 translated messages, 356 fuzzy translations, 9 untranslated
messages.

Now, this only has to be checked and corrected for the glossary...

However, I've found a problem with csv.to.pot-sh. It creates "#" style
po comments (only the # character), and those comments disappeared
immediately when I ran some sort of po-processing tool. Since the
comments are important here, it was rather unfortunate. All types of
merging to get the comments back failed - I always ended up with the po
msg comments in one file and the translations in another.
This is probably due to the comments being defined as they are. If I
replaced the # with "#. " it worked much better. I think this has to do
with simple "#" comments being translator comments, that shouldn't be
preserved in po processing, and "#. " being automatic comments, that
should be preserved (see
http://www.gnu.org/manual/gettext/html_mono/gettext.html#SEC9). So if
csv-to-pot.sh could be changed to generate "#. " po message comments, I
think that would solve the problem.

Also, couldn't it generate the true pot creation time? date +"%y-%m-%d
%H:%M%z" works on my Linux system (the %z doesn't work on Solaris, but
hey... ;-)


Thanks again for your work!

Christian