@Dimitris: I do.... I use both your excellent online editor at Transifex.com, and Gedit. The online editor for the day-to-day translations, and Gedit when I want to see if the translation is in good state "under the hood".
Both tools are important to me... 2013/9/19 Dimitris Glezos <[email protected]> > > Do people still open PO files in text editors? > > {picard-facepalm} > > -d > > > > On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 4:01 AM, Pjotr Vertaalt > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Well, it's simply easier to read in a text editor, when the layout of the >> msgid is exactly the same as the layout of the msgstr. >> >> Especially when \n has been used a lot.... >> >> >> 2013/9/19 Kevin Brubeck Unhammer <[email protected]> >> >>> Dimitris Glezos <[email protected]> writes: >>> >>> > It's better to save a string in that form, no reason to split a string >>> > if the splitting isn't doing anything. >>> > >>> > Unless I misunderstood something, I'm not seeing why Gedit would make >>> > it harder to translate a string like that. If it does, maybe a bug >>> > report on Gedit would be a good idea.. >>> >>> The reason to split is to keep lines short and readable, especially for >>> people with small screens (less of an argument now than back when the >>> gettext format was first created, I guess). I believe many offline po >>> editors do this splitting. >>> >>> -- >>> Kevin Brubeck Unhammer >>> >>> Sent from my emacs >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Xfce-i18n mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://mail.xfce.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce-i18n >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Xfce-i18n mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.xfce.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce-i18n >> >> > > > -- > Dimitris Glezos > Founder & CEO, Transifex > https://www.transifex.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > Xfce-i18n mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.xfce.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce-i18n > >
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