Re: string change questions

[Ole Laursen <olau hardworking dk>]

Jacob Perkins <jap1@users.sourceforge.net> writes:

> Would any of the following be considered string changes and/or break
> existing translations?
> 1. Add a new file to POTFILES.in that contains already translated
> strings

No, not if they are exactly matched. You can check this by running
intltool-update -P LANGUAGECODE after the change if, for instance, the
LANGUAGECODE.po is fully updated. If there are fuzzy strings, they
didn't match exactly.

> 2. Remove files from POTFILES.in that don't have any strings to
> translate

No, but it is probably pointless, and potentially dangerous if you
later add strings to the files. xgettext doesn't mind searching in
vain. :-)

> 3. Move a translated string from one file to another, both being in
> POTFILES.in

Again, no, if both are marked appropriately.

> 4. Remove a file from POTFILES.in that contained an unecessary string
> translation (i.e. date format).

No, but you should probably rather avoid marking that particular
string. And date formats usually needs to be i18nized unless they are
not intended for human eyes.


Of course, if you do the changes incorrectly, it might break the
string freeze.

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Ole Laursen
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