Hi Hannie On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 4:52 PM, lafeber-dumoleyn2 <lafeber-dumole...@zonnet.nl> wrote: > Thanks to all the reactions in the thread "Not happy at all", which I > started in December, I can give you an update on what I have done. > After merging manual-lucid and manual-maverick with the command 'msgmerge', > the result is a new po-file with all the old translations in it, contrary to > manual-maverick in Launchpad which lacks more than 400 translated > paragraphs. I cannot upload this new po-file to Launchpad because then all > the fuzzies are missing. > So the only options are: > 1. copy all the fuzzies from the po-file to manual-maverick in Launcpad. > This is a very time-consuming job and on top of that the name of the > original translator is substituted by the name of the person who copies the > paragraphs. This is hardly fair to the original translator. > 2. finish the manual-maverick po-file offline in a CAT. This would be much > faster, but I am afraid that it will become a mess when this file is later > uploaded to Launchpad. Besides, working offline can only be done by one > person. And here we have the same problem, the names of the original > translators are lost. > Perhaps there is someone who can come up with a brilliant idea to solve > this. I am particularly interested in how the German and Greek translation > teams have tackled this.
It shouldn't become a mess when the file is uploaded to Launchpad after working offline. It might complain if the po-file header has changed, but that should not be a problem if you choose "import" rather than "upload". Did you observe any problems? Regards Ask > > I also experimented, with the help of Ask, with the commands podiff, wdiff > and cdiff. These are useful to find out which version is the right one. > Example: I had about 4 versions of manual-Lucid, with slight differences. > With wdiff/cdiff it was made easy to find which was the right one. > Hannie > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual > Post to : ubuntu-man...@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- ubuntu-translators mailing list ubuntu-translators@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-translators
