Re: Mistakes in doc translations

[Jiro Matsuzawa <jmatsuzawa gnome org>]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 12:45 AM, Ask Hjorth Larsen <asklarsen gmail com> wrote:
> 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.
>
If you have a source tree, you can extract location info at any time
with msgmerge.
So, no-location is not a problem.



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