.po file priority

.po file priority

[Clytie Siddall]

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Hi there :)

As a mad localizer, I have been working on a number of your files 
recently, and have found that difficult because few, if any have the 
Report-Msgid-Bugs-To header filled in.

This header contains the contact address for us to report any typos or 
mistakes in the original strings, or to clarify meaning of strings with 
the developer.

I have discussed this with the Translation Project at the University of 
Montréal, and they would like to encourage your developers to use this 
header when creating .pot/.po files. Once that variable is set, it 
shouldn't be necessary to do it again: all .po files from that 
developer should have the header filled in.

I checked on the TP mailing list, and they said:

> As the gettext documentation says:
>
>    Report-Msgid-Bugs-To
>      This has already been filled in by `xgettext'.
>
> The developer thus needs to pass the option --msgid-bugs-address=...
> to xgettext. With recent gettext infrastructure this is a field in
> po/Makevars that the developer fills in; the rest is automatic.

Please encourage your developers to fill in this field, so we can do a 
better job of localizing their files. :)

Thankyou for your time.

from Clytie (vi-VN, team/nhóm Gnome-vi)

Clytie Siddall--Renmark, in the Riverland of South Australia

Ở thành phố Renmark, tại miền sông của Nam Úc

Re: .po file priority

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 03:04:30PM +1000, Clytie Siddall wrote:
> I checked on the TP mailing list, and they said:
> 
> >As the gettext documentation says:
> >
> >   Report-Msgid-Bugs-To
> >     This has already been filled in by `xgettext'.
> >
> >The developer thus needs to pass the option --msgid-bugs-address=...
> >to xgettext. With recent gettext infrastructure this is a field in
> >po/Makevars that the developer fills in; the rest is automatic.
> 
> Please encourage your developers to fill in this field, so we can do a 
> better job of localizing their files. :)

Thanks for the report.  I'm afraid binutils is still stuck in the stone
age of gettext infrastructure; but we'll get this done eventually,
really!  It's going to take a little time.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC