Re: New document required

["Duarte Loreto" <happyguy_pt hotmail com>]

   Hello!

If I may add one to this... The document should also contain info like:

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For schema files (usually ones listed on the msgid comment as 
<somestuff>.schemas.in or similar), one should take care. The special words 
that represent possible key values should not be translated. Key values ate 
interpreted by the running program, that will not understand the value if 
filled by the user with a translated version instead of the original english 
word. Ex:

msgid "Possible values are: \"low\", \"medium\" or \"high\""
msgstr "Valores possíveis são: \"low\", \"medium\" ou \"high\""

But if a botton on the GUI is mentioned, for instance, it should be 
localized. Ex:

msgid "Werether the \"Take Picture\" button is enabled by default."
msgstr "Se o botão \"Capturar Imagem\" está ou não activo por omissão."

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This one is very fresh on my mind (and painfull) as only after almost 2 
years translating GNOME (started on October 2001, with 1.4.1) I realized I 
shouldn't be translating the Key values and that I could be misleading users 
that ventured into gconf-editor. Now I'm trying to catch all mistakes... 
Hard... :/

Hope this helps someone in the future!

Duarte "HappyGuy" Loreto

"Don't worry, be happy!"

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