Hi, On 12/09/2007, Danilo Šegan <danilo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Today at 12:36, Matthew East wrote: > > > Hopefully bzr is clever enough to merge any additional > > changes to po files in upstream svn too. > > Btw, bzr is not clever enough: no VCS is, because PO files are not, > even if disguised as, plain text files. Oh, I thought they were. > Most of metadata changes are done with software like > intltool/xgettext/xml2po, and translators touch only the translatable > messages. Anything else, including different ideas about formatting > and flags (eg. "#, fuzzy, c-format" is equivalent in a PO file to "#, > c-format, fuzzy" but not in bzr) and source code references per > message, is dependent on the tool used to work on the PO file. > > So, don't count on bzr helping you there. Ok, so I assume that this is going to be harder than I thought. What would you recommend to ensure (a) that Ubuntu-specific changes can be translated, and (b) that improved upstream translations can be merged and incorporated into the tree? -- Matthew East http://www.mdke.org gnupg pub 1024D/0E6B06FF
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