Alfredo Braunstein wrote:
> Before the beer, this time.
Thanks. Applied here.
> I'm wondering, is it useful at all to translate identically (copying
> msgid to msgstr) entries as "Mathematica", "Octave", the arrows in
> the citation dialog of the xforms frontend, and a myriad of other
> non-traslatable entries? I'm asking because they are translated in
> some po files.
No, it is not useful.
> And why are such entries available for translation?
Because the translation code is generated automatically from the .fd
files by a little awk script.
The string is stored as
label: Restore|#R
or
label: @4->
As you can see, there's no way for the script to ascertain which one
should be translated.
--
Angus
