Le 11.08.20 à 01:03, Florian Müllner a écrit : > On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 20:58, Alexandre Franke <afra...@gnome.org> wrote: >> I must be missing something because all the changes in your MR have a >> net increase of content (e.g. ar.po is >> + 1538 - 682) so I would expect the translations to actually take up >> more space after the update. > > Sorry for being unclear, I'll try to explain better. > > The merge requests changes the .po files, and they indeed increase in size: > > - new translated strings are added > - translations for removed strings are commented out (but not removed) > > But both comments and untranslated messages are discarded when compiling > the .po to .mo files, so the latter do get smaller (because the > additions are not added, while message that were commented out are removed)
I support the position of Alexandre. What could be done if you really want to create smaller .mo files is to merge existing .po files with a fresh .pot file during the build process and before producing .mo files. Claude -- www.2xlibre.net _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
