[Lazarus] IDE bug handling translations?

[Giuliano Colla]

I'd hate to steal the job to an official maintainer, mainly in those 
days of unemployment :-) , but the Italian translation appeared to 
pochecker like a battlefield, already before running localize.sh.
Aside from previous and last discrepancies, there's also a high number 
of inconsistencies, such as Tools being translated sometimes as Tools, 
sometimes as Environment, just to mention the first one. They appear to 
be remnants of very old Lazarus versions.
If you add that poedit denounces some 41% untranslated strings, it looks 
like the matter deserves some attention.
All of that comes from just one single file: lazarusidestrconsts. I'm 
afraid other files aren't in a better shape!

So, if the official maintainer is unable/unwilling to update the Italian 
translations, I can take this boring job on my shoulders, at least to 
provide a more complete and updated set of po files, to restart with.

As far as hard coded line endings are concerned, my opinion, FWIW, is 
strongly in favor. Line endings are intended to improve readability, and 
the different length of strings in different languages might require a 
slightly different arrangement. If they're hidden behind a %s parameter 
it becomes much harder to reposition them, with the risk of mistaking 
something else with a line ending.

Just my 5 c.

Giuliano




Il 24/06/2014 19:27, Juha Manninen ha scritto:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 8:05 PM, Mattias Gaertner
> <nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de> wrote:
>> Can you now use pochecker?
> Yes. It shows 173 errors in eg. lazaruside.fi.po which looks correct.
>
> Juha
>
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