po-sensitive diffs (was: Re: 2.12 Press Release ready for translation

[Clytie Siddall <clytie riverland net au>]

On 03/09/2005, at 9:54 PM, Danilo Åegan wrote (in conclusion):

> Also, if any of you is having problems with regenerated PO files
> there, I'd like to know since this is the first big test of my
> "pomerge.py" script which replaces msgmerge (to include diffs in PO
> files).

Danilo, does this script, or can you point me to something that does,  
diff PO files and ignore everything but the headers, msgid and  
msgstr? My text editor diff not only dililgently diffs all the string  
block information, but also counts whole blocks together as one line,  
which is hardly useful. :(  I look for diffs and get a result like  
"line1-203" :(

I can't run Kbabel or gtranslator or poedit until Apple gets its X11  
UTF-8 input and display problems sorted out. I have an excellent  
translation editor (LocFactoryEditor) which doesn't diff, and an  
excellent text editor which has no translation features. <sigh>

Thankyou for any help you can offer with this. Most likely gettext  
has this all along, and I didn't know...

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