On 09/18/09 11:01, Andre Schnabel wrote:
Hi Frank,
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Von: Frank Peters <f...@sun.com>
Namely, I have seen that also changes in English strings are a bit
frustrating for us non-English localizers - in English strings
sometimes just fixing a typo makes the string in your language fuzzy,
but actually your translation should be just fine. But you want to
make it sure what changed and if translation is ok etc. and you lose
precious time. If one knew that a typo and English content changing
CWS is coming one would go translating through it in a different way
compared to an new strings CWS.
That is hard to catch without having a flag that says "I changed
something, but it's irrelevant to l10n".
In theory, we have this flag. At least the help XML format is prepared
for that. "All paragraphs contain an l10n attribute used to specify
the localization status of the paragraph."
(quote from http://documentation.openoffice.org/files/documents/75/499/XMLHelpSpec10.pdf , page 15).
In current help files, the attribute is present with different values.
Unfortunately this information gets lost during conversion steps
( xml -> sdf -> po/xml). As long as we keep "thumb" sdf as
intermediate file format, we won't get around this problem.
Best,
André
Hi André,
this flag means "this paragraph is irrelevant for translations" or
"never translate this paragraph". I did not know that this does not get
passed over to translators, though. Bad tools design :-(
What we would need is a flag that says "the changes to this paragraph
that were done just recently need not go into the translation database".
But then, if we later change the same paragraph with relevant edits,
this flag must be reset automatically.
Uwe
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