Re: Should translators change source strings?

[Clytie Siddall <clytie riverland net au>]

On 08/08/2005, at 11:18 PM, Adam Weinberger wrote:

> Every module may have a file named po/README.TRANSLATORS. In this  
> file, developers may put instructions such as "Only simple spelling  
> and grammar fixes" or "Please make any change necessary" or "Do not  
> make changes at all" or "You break it, you buy it". Absence of po/ 
> README.TRANSLATORS will mean that translators have implicit  
> permission to edit the source strings themselves to resolve simple,  
> obvious grammar and spelling errors. (I.e.  more complex or non- 
> obvious changes will still require a bugzilla bug to be filed.)

This would save a lot of time, but how does it work with gettext? I  
thought changing _anything_ in a source string would make the .mo  
file fail on reintegration.

from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhÃm  
Viát hÃa phán mám tá do)
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