Re: Facility to lock strings for further editing

[Gil Forcada <gforcada gnome org>]

El dv 31 de 08 de 2012 a les 04:50 -0700, en/na Rajesh Ranjan va
escriure:
> Hi
> 
> 
> I have filed a bug, I feel that it will be good to improve our
> translation experience and native users' usability:
> 
> 
> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?37236
> 
> 
> 
> There is a great need to provide facility in .po file to lock the
> strings for further editing. It is always very difficult for a
> coordinator or commmitter of any project to track change of all the
> translation again. So there should always be a facility so that a
> coordinator or a community can lock the strings so that file can be
> translated/editable only for new or fuzzy strings. 
> 
> The benefit of this facility is great. Assume, if one community thinks
> that present translation of 'gedit' is fine for their locale, the
> community can lock all the strings or some strings where they are
> having consensus that these are fine. In this process the usability
> will be increased much and review will become very easier.
> 
> 
>  
> regards,
> --------------
> Rajesh Ranjan
> Kramashah

Sorry for the long delay on response :)

More than actually being able to lock strings (which at the end they are
in a text file and can be changed no matter what a header says on a
string) you can use the power of Damned-Lies to be able to see the
differences on a translation.

Then you can use meld for example to download both copies, the old
translation and the new translation and merge the files to remove the
translations that should not be modified.

Cheers,

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