Op Sa, 2009-05-16 om 18:19 +0200 skryf Chusslove Illich: > Some whitespace checks added in this run. > > One is to warn when the original text ends with space after a colon (e.g. > "Difficulty: ") and the translation misses the trailing space. In English > the trailing space is significant here, preventing that what follows the > label sticks to it. But this check alone produces 600+ warnings, and it may > be that in some languages the trailing space really should be removed (CJK > comes to mind), or is simply too unimportant a detail. > > There is a similar check for leading space too, except that it triggers no > matter what character follows the space, because this is rarely a mistake > and usually significant in original (unlike the mostly superfluous trailing > space when not following the colon). But it may still be insignificant in > some languages. > > So I've made it that, at the moment, only explicitly listed languages are > checked for matching outer whitespace to original. Whoever wants into this > list, tell.
People interested in these types of checks should try out pofilter in the Translate Toolkit: http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/toolkit/pofilter The same checks are also included in Pootle, and hopefully soon in Virtaal. There are over 40 checks, including starting whitespace and ending whitespace. It also checks if the translation starts with one when the original doesn't, as Gabríel requested. I have a patch ready to take the spacing conventions into account for Chinese and Japanese, at least to some extent. I would appreciate any feedback, since it isn't clear from my (old) checkout what it should be. For example, if I apply this change to pofilter, the following will be seen as an error: msgid "Choose host to connect to: " msgstr "选择要连接的主机： " My understanding is that the space would not be used in normal writing, and therefore is also not used when joining two messages together. Any Chinese / Japanese translators with opinions on these possibilities? Similar customisations can easily be made for your language if you are interested. Join us in #pootle on irc.freenode.net or the translate-devel mailing list: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/translate-devel Even language specific checks are possible. If there is interest, we can even do checks specific to Wesnoth. We already have customisations for OpenOffice.org, Mozilla applications, Drupal, KDE, GNOME/GTK, and others. Keep well Friedel -- Recently on my blog: http://translate.org.za/blogs/friedel/en/content/minority-languages-cut-short-sms _______________________________________________ Wesnoth-i18n mailing list Wesnoth-i18n@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-i18n
