Hi Martin, first: thanks for bringing the issue to the list - I share your opinion, that these really hurt translators.
But a small side note ... -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > An: dev@l10n.openoffice.org ... > > Just a small regression from a translator's perspective. When you > stumble upon such a fuzzy string with changed tags and/or unwanted > blanks added, you do not and cannot know, what other change happened > in the string. So you are being careful and recheck the translation, > then repair the tags and remove the spaces. Sometimes you check the > old po file, to chack what was changed from previous mXX. So in the > end one changed string like that takes more time from a translator > viewpoint than translating it from scratch. Please, keep this in mind > when you decide what to do with changes in m51 and m57 and further > steps in changing tags in these files. Changing 2000 help strings, > some intentionally by just replacing tags and some by mistake of > adding blanks mean same as 2000 new untranslated strings. let me promote XLIFF a little ;) Using XLIFF you have much more information available than with po. One of the information is the former source string and it's translation. This actually works with files processed by translate toolkit and XLIFF editors that are aware of the the alt-translation information. In reality it would look like this: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/w/images/1/18/De_l10n_ote_vorschlag.png You can identify relevant changes quite fast. Anyway .. it is still a stupid and boring work. The risk to lose real changes just by human mistake is high. > > So if such tag changes are planned, a special CWS could be created, > where *all* such tags should be replaced, then all current SDF files > from all translation teams should be delivered by the translation > teams to Hamburg where they would use this special super-trouper > command line tool that would replicate all the tag changes in > translations as well +1 André -- Jetzt kostenlos herunterladen: Internet Explorer 8 und Mozilla Firefox 3 - sicherer, schneller und einfacher! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/chbrowser --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@l10n.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@l10n.openoffice.org
