[Koha-translate] FW: Dumb translating questions?

[Fischer, Katrin]

Hi Marcel,

I think there is currently no way to contact another user – or at least none I am aware of. 

I would not remove them, because they will come back with your next translation update. You could mark those strings as fuzzy or just copy them from the English version. 
I think it would be very hard to get rid of them on Pootle, because it's hard to write a script that parses every bit of our templates correctly. After the switch to TT more %s were introduced into the po files. While this means you have to be more careful when translating, it also adds more context and less sentences are torn apart into smaller pieces. You can also carefully construct your sentences a bit different than the English version by moving the %s around a bit, but keeping them in same sequence.

%s %s %s%s%s%s %s %s%s %
Perhaps a missing s at the end of the string?

Katrin


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Van: koha-translate-bounces+m.de.rooy=rijksmuseum.nl at nongnu.org [mailto:koha-translate-bounces+m.de.rooy=rijksmuseum.nl at nongnu.org] Namens Marcel de Rooy
Verzonden: maandag 9 juli 2012 11:44
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Onderwerp: [Koha-translate] Dumb translating questions?

Hi,

Just some dumb questions from someone, not working too much on Pootle and translation ;)

1) I notice a new contributor in our Dutch nl-NL. Is there a way to contact/e-mail another Pootle user?  If I see that someone made say 5 contributions, can I see which 5 expressions were changed? 

2) Somehow we have a lot of errors with %s in our translation. Sometimes the translators removed them or miscounted. Personally, I think that it is quite strange that you should translate lots of expressions containing only %s’s. I am thinking now of removing such expressions from the local po file to be run on Koha. Did someone of you already have experience in that regard?  
Note that I also have errors on such ones, like: 
Creating ../../koha-tmpl/opac-tmpl/prog/nl-NL//modules/opac-basket.tt...
: Completely confused parametrizing -- msgid:
%s %s %s%s%s%s %s %s%s %

Thanks,

Marcel