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2010/12/30 Andras Timar <tima...@gmail.com>
> 2010/12/30 Arjuna Rao Chavala <arjunar...@googlemail.com>
>
> > > 1.This is lot of unnecessary work for the translators, as I have seen
> > that
> > there is more occurences of same strings when a language has more than
> one
> > locale (based on country), even though there is no difference in the
> > language. For example same strings repeat for te and te-IN. I do not
> know
> > the current constraints or whether current POT file is not properly put
> > together, but this could have been handled by capturing translations for
> > substrings and putting them in the UI.
> >
> >
> Yes, unfortunately we have a lot more helppack entries than actually
> needed.
> Probably it was a copy&paste from other part of the code. Sorry for the
> repeated strings. I already proposed to review the list of languages in
> libreoff...@fdo list, it can be a part of that.
>
> Thanks
>
> > 2. I have noticed some more strings for installing spell checker
> dictionary
> > for some languages, as more extensions are added, maintaining the
> > translation becomes difficult.
> >
>
> Can you please give some details, I don't understand what you mean.
>
> Example: Galician spellchecker dictionary for %PRODUCTNAME ,
Why there were no such strings for other languages? Will they appear later.
If they again repeat for languages with more locales, it will be a problem.
>
> >
> > 3. I have seen some repeats for installation commands for different
> > distributions as well.
> >
> >
> Repetitions should really be handled by the translation tool. It is not
> desirable (or sometimes not even possible) to re-use the same source string
> in a different context.
>
> Virtaal that I used seem to have limitations/bugs at present. Some times
translators may be using primitive tools, hence it is better for strings to
be minimal and occuring only once.
>
> > 4. In the HTML paras, the string to be highlighted is given as URL
> instead
> > of appropriate English word.
> >
>
In the below example source string, note the repetition of the url as the
string to be highlighted.
If you appreciate their efforts, and would like to ensure that
${PRODUCTNAME} continues to be available far into the future, please
consider contributing to the project - see <a href="
http://www.documentfoundation.org/contribution/";>
http://www.documentfoundation.org/contribution/</a> for details. Everyone
can make a contribution of some kind.
> Do you refer to the readme?
>
> No. Not sure I understand readme in your question above.
Thanks
Arjun
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