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[Anders Jenbo <anders@xxxxxxxx>]

Hmm, in the Danish translation team we have started keeping old copies of the PO files and then run msgmerge on the old and new PO file, it does make a bunch of false positives but the result is still better then nothing. Even the the false positives are beneficial as some of them can help with consistency in the translation.
Maybe fuzzy should only be enabled for translations that have a team assigned (for proper proof reading).

-Anders


On Wed 21/04/10 09:38 , Jeroen Vermeulen <jtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 2010-04-21 13:26, Anders Jenbo wrote:
> > Marking strings as fuzzy is actualy something else that is
> missing. It
> > should be done automatic when a string changes instead of just
> droping
> > the translation, this alows translators to just make the same,
> > corrections to the string instead of having to retranslate it. It
> would
> > also be very help full if LP was also able to show what was
> changed in
> > the English string next to the fuzzy string.
> This has come up many times.  We used to support gettext's fuzzy 
> matching, and it just wasn't good enough.  At the same time it 
> complicated what was already a very complex problem domain, so we 
> removed it.
> The basic problem is that English strings don't "change."  Some
> strings 
> disappear, and others appear.  There may or may not be similarities
> in 
> ordering and content, and some of those will be more meaningful than
> 
> others.  People often assume intuitively that the relationship will
> be 
> obvious to the software, but as a general problem it's not.
> It should be possible to develop something that will usually make 
> helpful connections between removed strings and added ones.  But we
> are 
> only a few developers and it's just not something we have time for. 
> The 
> code is open though, so if somebody else sees a good way of doing
> this, 
> I'm sure we'd be able and willing to assist them.
> In fairness I should say that this is not something that you'd
> finish in 
> a weekend.  There's a lot of complexity that--we hope!--isn't
> entirely 
> obvious from the outside.  It requires changes in the UI, probably
> in 
> the database, and in the code inbetween.  All of those have to be 
> carefully designed, reviewed, and tested at multiple levels.  Doing
> a 
> lot of work without collaboration with the developers at any stage,
> from 
> specification to code review, is a recipe for failure.
> Jeroen
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