Re: [libreoffice-l10n] string freeze has been broken in libreoffice-4-1

On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 10:28:50AM +0100, Andras Timar wrote:
> > Hi Khaled,
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org> wrote:
> > > > Well, we could have avoided re-translating the 470 words in shared,
> > > > because the translatable strings have not changed, only identifiers.
> > > > That's a pity. If only Pootle were more intelligent, and distinguished
> > > > tags from text...
> > >
> > > Can you elaborate on this issue?
> >
> > For example:
> >
> > Old English string:
> > <ahelp hid="HID_ALIGNMENT">Sets the alignment options for the contents
> > of the current cell, or the selected cells.</ahelp>
> >
> > New English string:
> > <ahelp hid="cui/ui/cellalignment/CellsAlignPage">Sets the alignment
> > options for the contents of the current cell, or the selected
> > cells.</ahelp>
> >
> > Only the hid attribute of ahelp tag changed, which is not localizable
> > anyway. Yet, upon update the old translation is not even offered as
> > fuzzy, because fuzzy matching algorithm does not distinguish tags from
> > text. Tags in segments are usually invariable.
>
> Is the <ahelp> tag almost alway a top level one? If yes, then I think
> the best way is for PO extraction tool to strip the tags completely and
> use the hid as msgctx (the PO to help converter will have to be updated,
> too).

Unfortunately it's not, that's why it is part of the segment after
all. And there are other "internal" tags apart from <ahelp>, e.g.
<image> and <link> which also have non-translatable (and sometimes
changing) attributes.

Best regards,
Andras

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