[Lazarus] IDE bug handling translations?

[Giuliano Colla]

I have uploaded to bugtracker a first lazarusid.it.po, which still would 
require a lot of ironing, but at least passes pochecker test with no 
errors, and therefore shouldn't crash the IDE.

Giuliano

Il 25/06/2014 11:48, Giuliano Colla ha scritto:
> 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
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> 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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