Re: Mistakes in doc translations

[Ask Hjorth Larsen <asklarsen gmail com>]

Hi

On Thu, 19 Apr 2012, Jiro Matsuzawa wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> As Chusslove says, version control of PO is more difficult than that
> of normal source files.
> But there are tips on how to manage PO on VCS.
> 1. --no-wrap
> 2. --no-location
>
> The above points are msgmerge's options. Msgmerge with --no-wrap does
> not wrap texts. That gets rid of noise from rewraps.
> And --no-location is also useful. That removes location information
> which causes conflicts.
>
> Please refer to the following PO diff.
> http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-user-docs/commit/gnome-help/ja/ja.po?id=dc7c0d447e510dd25d15b73cc7462bf79f623d69
>
> The PO file was msgmerged with --no-wrap and --no-location. Commits of
> the po indicate no inessential and noisy diff which makes version
> control of PO difficult.
> In a word, it's important to remove information and format
> automatically generated.
>
> Thanks,

If the source file information is removed, then it is difficult to find 
the strings in the source.  That makes it difficult to translate 
complicated strings where more context is needed.  This is only something 
I personally do when I really have to, but it's important to keep the 
source file information for this reason.

Best regards
Ask