Recent upload of openoffice.org translations

[Danilo Šegan]

Hi Daniel,

We are preparing an announcement which will explain what's going on
with OpenOffice.org translations, and the changes we are doing.  The
import of files is not done yet, and we'll send it soon after it's
done (we still advise against translating OOo until the import is
completed).

In short, the idea is to allow better translation of OpenOffice.org.

Today at 11:43, Daniel Nylander wrote:

> I see that you have uploaded translations for openoffice.org.
> What I also see is that you have somewhat uploaded English translations
> into the Swedish translation (and maybe others).

That's the problem with upstream translations.  They are including
English messages where there should be Swedish, and they are including
it in the source code directly (since Swedish is one of
OpenOffice.org-supported languages).

Now, some of this was *hidden* from Ubuntu translators so far because
we joined many messages into bigger PO templates, and the messages you
see as "bad" are likely repeated elsewhere.

So, those messages were there (and most of them badly [un]translated)
before, it's just that you probably didn't notice them.  But now you
can actually fix them using Launchpad, which should be nothing but
advantage (IMO).

The best thing you can do is actually review them and fix them.

> Examples from
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/feisty/+source/openoffice.org/+pots/basic-app/sv/+translate
>
> English: VCLTestTool
> Current Swedish: StartTestTool 
...

Look at eg.

  http://ooo.googlecode.com/svn/data_trunk/localize/localize-basic-app.sdf

and you'll notice those messages are indeed there with bad
translations.

Cheers,
Danilo