Re: sed/perl s jobs on the whole po directory

[Yanko Kaneti <yaneti declera com>]

On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 14:14 +0300, Priit Laes wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 14:00 +0300, Yanko Kaneti wrote:
> > Regarding the need to "translator_credits" > "translator-credits" in
> > quite a lot of modules. Could somebody remind me why is it not
> > appropriate to do this as a sed/perl s job on all the *.po files, done
> > by the developer? What are the translators reasons for opposing this
> > practice?
> > 
> > As a small time translator myself I don't see the downside of it.

> Because all the strings in .po files are generated from the source
> files.

I am well aware of that. Perhaps I didn't make myself clear. 
Its about doing the sed job along with changing the occurrence of the
string in question in the source files.

Yanko