[Localization] Problem: 2 translations for 1 string

[Gerhard Steiner]

Dear Sayamindu,

We are talking about 100-200 translation strings, for which we need a 
solution.
So I kindly ask the OLPC-Pootle Admin(s) for a suggestion.

If the translators have to clarify each of these strings with the 
developers: (how to change the source, how are these written to the pot 
file, ....)
- that slows down the translation
- could become very error prone

best regards
Gerhard Steiner



Alexander Todorov schrieb:
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> Gerhard Steiner wrote:
> | Please give us a hint what we can do. At the moment we are not able to
> | finish the etoy-translation.
> | 1. Is there a way to adopt the etoys.po
>
> I'd say you can't do that.
>
> | 2. If no, what else can we do?
> |
> File a ticket or contact developers so the strings are different in 
> some way or
> invent a transaltion suitable for both menus.
>
> Not sure of gettext internals exactly but when in the source a 
> multiple strings
> are marked _("...") this will produce only 1 entry in the POT file.
>
>
> I understand that the German translation is dependent on context in this
> particular case but that may not be the case with most of the 
> translations so I
> doubt that you'll find a nice solution to your problem.
>
> Regards,
> Alexander.
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