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Re: Generating "test" POs for testing purposes
- To: Documentation and Translation <doc at arabeyes dot org>
- Subject: Re: Generating "test" POs for testing purposes
- From: Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 22:32:19 -0700 (PDT)
--- Abdulaziz Al-Arfaj <alarfaj0 at yahoo dot com> wrote:
> What I want to talk about is a way to quickly find where a mispelling
> originated from. When I see something wrong in some menu I have no easy
> way of knowing exactly which string of which PO contains the mistake.
> It would be good if we had "testing" POs, where all strings carry
> unique identifiers.
>
> This identifier doesnt have to be complicated. Just the po file's name
> followed by the string number would be sufficient.
>
> So, for example in the file xyz.po you might have the following as the
> 14th string:
>
> msgid "hello"
> msgstr "مرحبا - xyz_14"
Isn't it easy enough now to simply find the application's name (ie. file)
and search for the offending string within ? Is the location of the string
within the various .PO files really that much of a mystery ?
Sorry if this seems obvious, but I'm not a .PO user ;-)
Salam.
- Nadim
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