[haiku-i18n] Re: British English
- From: Niels Sascha Reedijk <niels.reedijk@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-i18n@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2013 15:42:49 +0200
Hi,
On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 7:06 PM, Rimas Kudelis <rq@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Richie,
>
> Richie Nyhus wrote:
>
>> I have just granted you the admin permissions on en-UK in Pootle. You can
>>> start refining your locale.
>>>
>> Cheers for doing that. It seems a bit easier than the old system.
>>
>> Pity the UK catkeys from the old system were lost though.
>>
>
> I don't think they could have been lost, IIRC, there was a proper string
> migration. It's just that the old system was aware of string inheritance,
> whereas Pootle is not, and that will be a problem for locales like yours,
> which inherit most of the strings from a parent locale. Pootle will never
> show your locale as complete, because it assumes that each string has to be
> translated, or at least copied to the target locale.
>
I have looked into it and so far I have not seen any option for string
inheritance, so in that sense we are out of luck.
> Although... if we had a post-processing script which simply strips all
> identical strings from a target file, you could simply copy all strings
> that don't need translation, thus making Pootle happy. I'm not sure if our
> post-processor script does that though...
It does not, but the question is whether or not that would actually matter
much, both in terms of speed and memory.
Regards,
N>
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