[Koha-translate] Translation for 3.12 using transifex (feedback)

[Mathieu Saby]

Le 20/05/2013 14:36, Frédéric Demians a écrit :
> Le 20/05/2013 14:11, Jared Camins-Esakov a écrit :
>
>> My conclusion from this is that Transifex may make translation
>> easier, but it also makes it easier to add errors like &nbsp in place
>> of  .
> It's not sure. It may come from the fact that French typography requires
> colon punctuation mark to be preceded by a space. Not the case in
> English. Maybe not the case in other languages. It might not be a
> specific Transifex flaw.

It was also a "timing" problem. We finished our translation work "just 
in time" for 3.12.0, so we had very very little time to test the files.
I plea guilty for the   : in the past,  this entity has been added 
in a lot of strings before ":" sign, but not in every string. So each 
time I found - by chance - a string with a bare ":", I decided to add 
the   in order to make the french templates more coherent. But when 
I tested it and found the mistakes, there were some problems (locked 
files) in our Transifex instance, so I was not able to fix the mistakes :(

Mathieu

>> In order to avoid putting out releases with broken languages in the
>> future, it might be a good idea to add unit tests for the PO files
>> that checks for broken entities, %s mismatches, etc.
> +1
>
> For the time being, this is to each language translation team to ensure
> that there translation doesn't contain any default. This isn't that bad
> since it delegates the translation validation job to those who are
> effectively doing it. So any unit test for translation should try to
> send their result to the translators rather than to the Release Manager
> or Translation Manager who have enough to do.
>
>>  From a philosophical point of view, of course, an open source tool
>> like Pootle is superior as well, but my principle concern is
>> technical.
> I kindly disagree with you from an immanent point of view, even if I
> transcendently agree.
>
> Kind regards,


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