[Geany-i18n] [Geany-Devel] String freeze for Geany 1.36 - pt_PT translation update

scootergrisen scootergrisen at xxxxx
Mon Sep 23 14:34:11 UTC 2019


Den 23-09-2019 kl. 16:23 skrev Colomban Wendling:
> Le 23/09/2019 à 07:43, Lucas Vieites a écrit :
>>    translator_credits is a special string in gettext, I'm not sure that
>> it can be replaced. Have a look
>> at https://wiki.gnome.org/TranslationProject/LocalisationGuide for some
>> more background information.
> 
> AFAIK it's not special per se, it's just used specially inside GNOME.  I
> wonder if there's really a reason why it's not "translator-credits"
> indeed, because I fail to see any technical reason why this would be
> problematic and it would solve right away the confusion with
> accelerators (which is mentioned in the linked document as well).
> 
> This said, in our particular case this string is pointless, because it
> comes from an embedded library but that very string is never displayed,
> so it could even be dropped.
> 
> @Matthew, how would you feel about changing this to translator-credits
> or another way to prevent the issue at hand, given that IIUC anyway the
> library doesn't have an upstream anymore?
> 
> Cheers,
> Colomban
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It seems in the GNOME po file i have "translator-credits" is mostly 
being used with a few "translator_credits" so maybe they have switched 
from _ to -.


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