#5023 HIGH Update.: tokenized Calculate.pot

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#5023: tokenized Calculate.pot
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  Reporter:  xavi                 |       Owner:  rwh        
      Type:  defect               |      Status:  new        
  Priority:  high                 |   Milestone:  Update.1   
 Component:  calculator-activity  |     Version:             
Resolution:                       |    Keywords:  i18n Pootle
  Verified:  0                    |  
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Comment(by xavi):

 The main blocker right now is that there's '''no''' text to translate
 given that there's nothing in:
 * the POT (either as comments or otherwise),
 * the source code (either as comments or otherwise),
 * the en.po (as valid 'translation')
 The simplest solution (albeit the most inefficient) would be to populate
 the en.po with the intented text so that a translator can check for it
 manually.
 Another alternative would be to regenerate the POT adding the intended
 text as comments.

 Another issue would seem to be that there are two kinds of strings: user &
 log.

 User messages are obviously intended to be translated, but it's not always
 the case for log messages, which depend on the visibility and target
 audience of them. I'm no expert on the subject, but remember reading that
 these log messages are better left as two clear segments: id & text. The
 id part is non-translateable while the text is. This helps everybody by
 allowing a more universal bug-reporting & debugging scheme: user,
 developer and anybody else know they are referring to the same 'error_id'
 but the text is local, allowing them to solve it locally without needing
 to get 'foreign language support' that shuffles back-and-forth trying to
 discover what the actual error is (due to the translation of the error
 message).

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