#2258: [PATCH] merge looses translations
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Reporter: rejoc | Owner: Chris Arndt
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 1.1b4
Component: I18n | Version: 1.1 HEAD
Severity: normal | Resolution:
Keywords: i18n merge |
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Comment (by Gustavo):
Replying to [comment:2 rejoc]:
> Replying to [comment:1 Gustavo]:
> > That's the default and intended behavior, therefore I think it should
be documented instead of changing it by default. See also #2257.
>
> Is this the intented behaviour ?
>
> There are cases where, if you do the following
> {{{
> tg-admin i18n collect
> tg-admin i18n add fr
> ... edit .po file to add translations to some of the msgids
> tg-admin i18n compile
> # you get your translations.
> tg-admin i18n merge # no collect so .pot is the same
> tg-admin i18n compile
> }}}
> you loose some of your translations :-(
>
>
> Within tg-admin, compile takes the last non empty translation as the
valid one. I found reasonable for merge to use the same method.
>
> This is what the patch provides. No more.
Yes, that's part of the intended behavior. If it was as simple as having
xgettext (or equivalent) merging duplicate messages, I bet you it had been
implemented in the official tools many years ago.
Any message collection mechanism that handles duplicate message is bogus.
You *can't* assume that its algorithm will work in all situation. That's
why msguniq and msgcomm exist.
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Ticket URL: <http://trac.turbogears.org/ticket/2258#comment:3>
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