Moving OOo translation project over to Rosetta/Launchpad

Mark Shuttleworth mark at canonical.com
Thu Dec 15 16:29:33 GMT 2005


Tim Morley wrote:

>>> Feature Request 1, an absolute must-have: our existing .po files 
>>> are packed
>>> full of comments...
>>
>>
>> Rosetta won't throw away this information, of course! The current
>> version of Rosetta can and will show both translator and programmer
>> comments in the interface. The current limitation that would bite 
>> you is
>> that while you can see them, you can't edit them to add more.
>
>
> OK, that's considerably better than I thought, although still not 
> ideal as you say.
>
> Would this workaround be possible: export the .po file from Rosetta, 
> add any comments to that, then re-import it? (Rather clumsy, yes, but 
> would it be possible?)

Yes, I think this would work. Carlos, editing the comments would be a
natural thing to add to the pomsgset view.

Mark



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