Re: Generating "test" POs for testing purposes

[Isam Bayazidi <ibayazidi at gmail dot com>]

I see why you came up with this idea, but I think that there are
better ways than to add numbers and names to existing texts.

a way known to work is to use the String search method for Kbabel.
Kbabel (when build with DB support) can load all the strings in a DB,
and then allow nice things like quick search. once you load the PO
files in the TB for Kbabel, you can easily search for a string, and it
will give you exactly the entries for it in all files, and their
translation, for you to double click and change.

On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 22:37:22 -0700 (PDT), Nadim Shaikli
<shaikli at yahoo dot com> wrote:
> --- Abdulaziz Al-Arfaj <alarfaj0 at yahoo dot com> wrote:
> > --- Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com> wrote:
> > [...]
> > > 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 ?
> >
> > Yes and no. For some applications its obvious which PO they got their
> > strings from, but this is not the case with *lib POs. An application
> > can get its strings from more than one PO (I think).
> >
> > Moreover some POs have thousands of strings, and some of those strings
> > _appear_ identical. But to see two English strings are identical doesnt
> > mean the translations should be, as context plays a big role in Arabic.
> 
> Let me ask you this then (again sorry if all of this seems newbie'ish).
> If I were to give you a tar of all the .PO files, would be able to
> "install" and use them on your live system ?  If the answer to that
> question is yes, then we can create a script to insert custom strings
> (or pointer) at each string to note the translations location.  In short,
> I'm agreeing with what you are saying (given I can't think of another
> way to get around it), but I don't think I'd want to have these "helper
> pointers" in .PO files in CVS (tag or no tag) - I think the end-result
> can be gotten with a bit of post-processing and reinstall of the .PO's.
> 
> Salam.
> 
>  - Nadim
> 
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-- 
Yours, 
Isam Bayazidi