Re: Marking strings translatable in gucharmap

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 03:49 -0400, Wouter Bolsterlee wrote:
> P�hu, Aug 24, 2006 at 01:28:52PM -0400, Behdad Esfahbod skrev:
> > I want to fix a bug in gucharmap that causes two new strings ("Next
> > Block", "Previous Block") being marked for translation.  These strings
> > have been marked for translation before we switched to GtkUIManager
> > (about 9 months ago), so many translation files already have those
> > translated (grep suggests 33 out of 71 .po files contain them.)
> > 
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=352665
> > 
> > May I?
> 
> The issue outlined above (strings already in the app, but not marked as
> translateable) are not affected by string freeze [1]... so I guess you
> should go ahead and do it NOW!
> 
>   mvrgr, Wouter
> 
> [1] Not marking those strings as such won't do any of us good, while marking
> them as such does not cause regressions.

Previously I've seen Danilo having concerns about marking new strings as
translatable as those change the statistics.  Anyway, after checking the
reference:

  http://live.gnome.org/TranslationProject/HandlingStringFreezes

I went on to commit the change, when I noticed that the bug reported has
committed it already.  Yay for everyone can write to everyone's
approach :-(.

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