Re: Improve translations in Mallard

2011-10-24 Thread Gil Forcada
El dg 23 de 10 de 2011 a les 18:16 -0400, en/na Shaun McCance va escriure: On Sun, 2011-10-23 at 12:27 +0200, Gil Forcada wrote: Hi all, I added a couple of bugs to Yelp regarding mallard translations. Hi Gil, Thanks for the reports. It's valuable to know what's helpful to you. The

Re: Improve translations in Mallard

2011-10-24 Thread Chusslove Illich
[: Chusslove Illich :] While intltool does this too, it shouldn't be done. PO processing tools, be it PO editors or whatever else, have no obligation to consider and parse such comments. [: Shaun McCance :] Are there any processing tools that actually have a problem with this? For one,

Re: Improve translations in Mallard

2011-10-24 Thread Claude Paroz
Le lundi 24 octobre 2011 à 08:38 +0200, Gil Forcada a écrit : Great! Then we have to make sure we use itstool for documentation statistics and POT/PO generation in Damned-Lies. We use it when the doc generation system of any specific module is set up to use it (ie Makefile.am variables

Re: Improve translations in Mallard

2011-10-24 Thread Shaun McCance
On Mon, 2011-10-24 at 12:20 +0200, Chusslove Illich wrote: [: Chusslove Illich :] On the other other hand, gettext defines and treats PO files in a way that's not really nice to third-party tools. I'd love to put some info in #, comments (e.g. marking a message transliteration-only), but

Re: Improve translations in Mallard

2011-10-24 Thread Chusslove Illich
[: Shaun McCance :] I don't currently auto-prefix comments with TRANSLATORS:. Should I? I mean, I assume you know the comment is addressed to you, and don't need to be shouted at for each message. Well, a prefix is conventional... frequently it is also translators: or Translators: instead of

Improve translations in Mallard

2011-10-23 Thread Gil Forcada
Hi all, I added a couple of bugs to Yelp regarding mallard translations. In [1] I ask for adding msgctxt to all Mallard strings so that the (p), (title) and other hints that are easily seen by the translators as are now that are only available on the source reference. In [2] I ask for filtering

Re: Improve translations in Mallard

2011-10-23 Thread Shaun McCance
On Sun, 2011-10-23 at 12:27 +0200, Gil Forcada wrote: Hi all, I added a couple of bugs to Yelp regarding mallard translations. Hi Gil, Thanks for the reports. It's valuable to know what's helpful to you. The bugs you filed were from PO files generated by xml2po. We've been slowly

Re: Improve translations in Mallard

2011-10-23 Thread Shaun McCance
On Mon, 2011-10-24 at 00:18 +0200, Chusslove Illich wrote: [: Shaun McCance :] We've been slowly transitioning our documents to itstool. [...] You see this: #: C/account-jabber.page:59(title/gui) While intltool does this too, it shouldn't be done. PO processing tools, be it PO