Re: Should translators change source strings?

[Adam Weinberger <adamw magnesium net>]

Clytie Siddall wrote:
> 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.

Not "source string" as in

# src/foo.c, 135
msgstr "pants"


I'm talking about editing a source string as in

vi src/foo.c +135
{
	printf("_(pants)");
}

# Adam


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