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[Kyle Nitzsche <kyle.nitzsche@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/06/2011 05:45 PM, Kevin Godby wrote:
> Hello.
>
> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Kyle Nitzsche
> <kyle.nitzsche@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> > On 01/06/2011 04:44 PM, Kevin Godby wrote:
> > > I'm afraid that the errors your script reports will consist almost
> > > entirely of false positives.
> > It hasn't yet reported any false positives based on the current book
> > contents in several linguas.
> >
> > If it does, that would be an issue.
> None of the po files have any translations yet, so of course there
> aren't any false positives.  The only test cases you've introduced are
> your own errors.
>
> po4a properly escapes the msgid portion.
Yes, my po files have properly escaped msgid fields.
>   The only part your script
> would need to check is the translated msgstr.
which is all it does check. just msgstr fields.
>   So far, all of the
> msgstrs in the po files in the repository are empty (save for the
> strings where you've injected the language code).
>
> --Kevin
So I still think it is fine. Translators will  translate. If they introduce 
errors, this find them.

Cheers,
Kyle

Right?