[mythtv] Translation: Some textstrings are untranslatable?

Kenni Lund kenni at kelu.dk
Fri Jan 15 21:32:52 UTC 2010


2010/1/15 Stuart Morgan <stuart at tase.co.uk>:
> On Friday 15 Jan 2010 19:38:52 Kenni Lund wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> A friend and I have begun the process of getting the danish
>> translation of mythtv+plugins back in shape, as the current
>> translation is quite outdated.
>>
>> After fully translating all of mythvideo and mythweather into danish,
>> we've noticed that several of the translated strings isn't being used
>> once we test the translations in latest trunk.
>>
>> We assume that these are bugs, as it's only some strings who have the
>> problem (at least in the case of mythvideo, it seems to be worse in
>> mythweather).
>>
>> Neither my friend or I have the knowledge or time to look into this at
>> the moment, but since we're going through almost all of the strings
>> anyway, would it be of any help if we took note of the untranslatable
>> strings and filed a bugreport with them for each of the plugins in
>> Mythtv?
>
> The translation files .ts don't keep pace with the code, it's not worthwhile
> updating them every time a string is added/removed/changed in the code, they
> are updated when we reach the feature freeze.
>
> Most of these are probably not bugs and submitting reports would not be
> helpful. If you can wait until the .ts files are resynced again then filing
> reports for any strings still not translated would be appreciated.

Isn't this what lupdate is suppose to update? We did indeed run
lupdate before translating, as described on
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Translation

Best Regards
Kenni Lund


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