en_GB - Let's not miss these opportunities

[Bruce Cowan <bruce bcowan me uk>]

Forwarded to the list because I pressed the wrong button.

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From: Bruce Cowan <bruce bcowan me uk>
Date: 5 September 2012 12:36
Subject: Re: en_GB - Let's not miss these opportunities
To: Chris Leonard <cjlhomeaddress gmail com>


On 5 September 2012 09:40, Chris Leonard <cjlhomeaddress gmail com> wrote:
> Dear en_GB localizers,
>
> One of the great advantages of the relatively simple "translation" of
> en_us POT files into en_GB is that it gives you the opportunity to do
> much needed proofreading of the original en_US strings.

Yes, I was meaning to start earlier this cycle in order to do this,
but I have been quite busy recently.

> I've encountered a few instances where typographical errors in the
> en_US original were simply corrected in the en_GB PO file, but no i18n
> bug had been filed against the package.
>
> vino (UPnP)
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=683387
>
> There was another example in avahi "occured > occurred"
>
> When you encounter these typograhical errors while going through en_GB
> PO files (I'm not talking about the common orthographic variations,
> but genuine typos), please do not simply make the correction in the
> en_GB PO without filing the i18n bug.  If you don't want to take the
> time to file the i18n bug, that is fine, but please leave the string
> untranslated and someone like me will get around to translating it
> later (after filing the i18n bug).

There's a tool in the gnome-i18n repository called en_GB.pl. You can
use en_GB.pl --check to get a list of differences between the expected
en_GB strings and the translations used. It misses a few ("ize" ->
"ise"), but it's very useful for this sort of thing.

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Bruce Cowan <bruce bcowan me uk>


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