Re: Finding strings in GNOME

[scootergrisen <scootergrisen gmail com>]

Den 09-05-2021 kl. 23:21 skrev Daniel Șerbănescu:
> În data de Du, 09-05-2021 la 22:37 +0200, Matej Urban via gnome-i18n a 
> scris:
> > Hello, I need a bit of help.
> > I frequently see strange translations, but then can not find, which 
> > packet those belong to. Is there a simple way to find them?
>
> Hello Matej,
> Here are the steps I usually do:
> 1. On your language team page in Damned Lies open a release page (Like 
> Gnome 40). There is a link to download all the .po files, it is located 
> at the bottom of translation statistics. So click that link to download
> E.g. For the Romanian team the link would be at the bottom os this page: 
> https://l10n.gnome.org/languages/ro/gnome-40/ui/ 
> <https://l10n.gnome.org/languages/ro/gnome-40/ui/>
> 2. Extract the .po files in a folder
> 3. Open a terminal in that folder
> 4. Use the following grep command: grep -ri "the string you are looking 
> for" *
> (replace "the string you are looking for" with the actual search term.)
>
> Be aware that there can be memonics in the original string so you could 
> try searching for a part of that string.

Do anyone know how to ignore these "_" memonics that might be in strings?

So i can search for "Test" and i will find all these:
"Test"
"_Test"
"T_est"
"Te_st"
"Tes_t"