On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 6:14 AM, Rodney Dawes <rodney.da...@canonical.com> wrote: >> 2) Would inline translations have any effect on the image size >> compared to having the translations in a .mo? (More specifically for >> the description bits as the question re: Names was already answered in >> the other thread) > > Virtually no. As plain text, the .desktop file will compress extremely > well, unlike the .mo files. There may be a slight increase of a few > bytes, for a few apps, but I don't see it causing any issue with image > size.
I'm curious about this. While .mo message catalogues are a binary fortmat, I would have thought the majority of their content would be text (the english and translated versions of each string). I would have thought these would compress to a similar degree as plain text. James. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
