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Check how re-extract of translation strings and upload to transifex works #36

Closed rufuspollock closed 12 years ago

rufuspollock commented 12 years ago

Need to check how well our process works when we do another extraction of strings. In particular would hope not too much of existing translations get blown away.

rufuspollock commented 12 years ago

Extraction worked quite well (even with our use of msgcat).

In addition have uploaded to transifex and result was quite promising:

Aside: @timClicks given this effect of minor changes worth documenting for translators that this can happen - viz minor changes lead to discarding of translation (because computers do not do language comprehenesion!). Thus, even a trivial change to a paragraph leads to that no longer being translated and old translation thrown away. They should therefore first check old translation to see if that can be re-used (they should be able to find translation in their languages po file here on github).

Aside: that suggests another important rule. Never update transifex with a new pot without first downloading most recent versions of all translations and integrating ...