Le lundi 23 juillet 2007 à 12:29 +0100, Simos Xenitellis a écrit : > Hi All, > It is common in translation teams when a message does not need/require > translation to simply copy the "msgid" content to "msgstr". For example, > > msgid "GConf" > msgstr "GConf" > > This is quite common for the locales en_GB, en_CA where the vast > majority of the messages remain the same. > > The problem arises from the fact that when compiling those PO files into > MO files (with "msgfmt"), the copied messages are included, contributing > to an increased size of the file on disk, and also in memory when the > application is loaded. The issue is, those copied messages could have > been ommited entirely in the MO file as the running application does not > need them (it can use the message text that is already included in the > executable). > > I blogged about this at > http://blogs.gnome.org/simos/2007/07/23/important-mo-file-optimisation-for-en_-locales-and-partly-others/ > > I sent a bug report at the gettext bugs email address. If anyone knows > of an alternative way to get in contact with the gettext developers, > please tell me.
You may also try to ping Bruno Haible (bruno at clisp dot org), main developer of gettext. Claude _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
