Re: [libreoffice-l10n] ampersand translation, placeholders, arbitrary line breaks

On 18/06/15 18:37, Andras Timar wrote:
> Hi Donaldo,
>
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 7:11 AM, Donald <donr2648@clear.net.nz> wrote:
> > 1. IMO translating &amp; to a word which means "and" in the localization
> > 2. In previous versions we took it that [None] was translatable. The
>
> You can silence warnings in Pootle. Press the (-) mark next to the
> error message beside the segment, and it will disappear and won't come
> back for that segment. Naturally, a human can judge better corner
> cases than a simple regexp matching algorithm.
>
> > 3. What is the point of the second "\n" in this? I thought that the
>
> These are very old strings in source code, and breaking lines manually
> makes little sense today. You don't have to break your lines in your
> translation, of you don't like. Just silence the Pootle warning next
> to the segment. (I'm sure that someone will correct these en-US
> strings sometimes, giving work to all translator again ;) ).
>
> Regards,
> Andras
Thank you, Andras. That hint is very useful.

Donaldo

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