[haiku-i18n] Re: Ellipses in Pootle
- From: Niels Sascha Reedijk <niels.reedijk@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-i18n@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 10:30:36 +0100
Hi,
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Rimas Kudelis <rq@xxxxxx> wrote:
> 2012.01.21 10:46, Humdinger rašė:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> I saw that the pootle site complains about ellipses "…" being three
>> dots "..." in translations. The exported catkeys also contain these
>> "...". Since the GUI appears to use "…" anyway, I assume the
>> translation kit (or maybe rather the buildprocess?) takes care of that.
>>
>> In any case, to remove those "false positives" from pootle's failure
>> list on the "Review" tab, would it be possible to automatically convert
>> "..." to "…"?
>
>
> These aren't false positives. :)
>
> I don't think Pootle has means to automatically replace strings. But:
> *) inputting "…" can be made easier. Pootle allows defining "special
> characters" for each language, a list of which is shown below the input
> field. Clicking any of these characters results in it being appended to the
> input field (so there's no need to copy-paste from somewhere else)
> *) occurences of "..." can be replaced with "…"during post-processing and
> checksum calculation, which is done outside Pootle.
The special characters are a good idea. Replacing them in
post-processing is also possible. I don't know which one would be
preferred.
Regards,
N>
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