On Sa, 2007-04-14 at 13:09 +0200, Erdal Ronahi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> when using the translate-toolkit and Pootle I frequently come across
> warnings and error messages that "XML tags should not be translated".
> This refers to strings like
>
>
>
> for instance in sw / source / ui / index.po
>
> Should they be translated of left alone? Are they really XML tags?
>
> Regards,
> Erdal
Hi Erdal
Yes, pofilter has it's limitations. It is a bit difficult to know that
is not an XML tag :-) We are continuously working on improving
the quality of the pofilter checks. Clytie reported a few limitations
in two reports in our bugzilla (many of them has since been fixed). For
reference:
http://bugs.wordforge.org/show_bug.cgi?id=178
http://bugs.wordforge.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215
Recently we started making pofilter language aware, for example to
understand the punctuation styles of different languages. Currently
only a few languages have been described, but hopefully people will help
us improve that.
With all this said, translators should understand that there might be
false positives, and use own judgement where necessary. Some checks are
almost guaranteed to indicate translation errors, while others might be
more likely to be false error reports in some cases. Certain tests are
also more useful for certain languages than for others.
Still, pofilter remains a useful tool to direct the review time in the
directions where it is more likely to be of use. It is expendable to
contain more tests, and adaptable to understand your language. Please
help us to improve it to make version 1.0 maximally useful to as many
languages as possible.
Regards
Friedel
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