Re: [DL]String additions to 'glib.glib-2-70'

[Alexandre Franke <afranke gnome org>]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 11:55 AM Philip Withnall <philip tecnocode co uk> wrote:
> Oops, I didn’t notice this backport was a string freeze break. The new
> string is an error message which is very unlikely to be seen by users.
>
> Options are:
>  - Unmark the string for translation and always display the error
> message in English

Untranslated strings that can not be translated are always worse than
untranslated strings because the work has just not been done. Please
don’t do that, ever.

>  - Leave the string marked as translatable, and be happy with the fact
> that most translators probably won’t update it and it will be
> displayed in English

Happy is not the term I would use, but I can live with it. Let’s call
this an exception plea and here is 1/2 from i18n.

Cheers,

-- 
Alexandre Franke
GNOME Hacker