Re: Two bugs for translatable strings

[Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net>]

Le jeudi 19 février 2009 à 09:39 +0200, F Wolff a écrit :
> Op Wo, 2009-02-18 om 23:10 +0100 skryf Reinout van Schouwen:
> > Op woensdag 18-02-2009 om 16:43 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Alexander
> > Larsson:
> > 
> > > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=572158
> > > > "None" label need translation context
> > > 
> > > > Could we fix at least the second one, or it's a string freeze break?
> > > 
> > > We're currently string frozen. I'm not sure these are important enought
> > > to request a break.
> > 
> > I very much doubt that adding a msgcxt constitutes a string freeze
> > break. As a translator I would welcome better context at any time.
> > CC'ing gnome-i18n list.
> 
> If a msgctxt is added, existing translations will go fuzzy with
> msgmerge, even if the msgid remained unchanged. So I guess this should
> be handled as a string freeze break since existing translations will not
> be used anymore.

Yes, confirmed. I've added a note about it on
http://live.gnome.org/TranslationProject/HandlingStringFreezes

Claude