Hi Stephane and Olivier (some background info in grey)
These are the mandatory strings in a .po file: #: reference… msgid untranslated-string msgstr translated-string The msgid is always in the source language of the software itself. If the "msgstr" (translation) is empty, Audacity switches back to the "msgid" (untranslated English source string). If you wanted to have a fallback language, that would mean that when the "msgstr" (translation) is empty, Audacity would have to switch to the "msgstr" (translation) of another translation file, in this case French. Apparently, it has been tried before: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29367405/gettext-fallbacks-dont-work-with-untranslated-strings What could be a simpler solution is just translating Breton to e.g. 50 % and before submitting it to the mailing list, to merge it with the latest French translations (keeping the 50 % translated file for later use when translating). The next update could be translating to 60 %, and again merging with the latest French translations before submitting. This doesn't require any changes on the Audacity developer side, and the translation status on Transifex would show correctly 50 or 60 %. The desired result would be achieved. And... this could be done with any combination of languages 🙂 Regards Thomas ________________________________ Van: Stephane Ascoet <[email protected]> Verzonden: donderdag 5 november 2020 18:07 Aan: [email protected] <[email protected]> Onderwerp: Re: [Audacity-translation] Breton language and fall-back language > I'm hoping the need does not arise and that the Breton translator is > sufficiently nationalistic not to switch to French for some words. Hi, even If I'm personally in favor of Brittany autonomy, I think it's not the point and fully agree with Olivier(as a french, he's understanding the point accurately!) > > OK. If the Breton translator wants that, then we can look at a developer > making a very special case for Breton. I think it's wouldn't limited to Breton!!! -- Sincerely, Stephane Ascoet _______________________________________________ Audacity-translation mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/audacity-translation
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