elixir-gettext
Save previous message for fuzzy matches
@whatyouhide When we fuzzy match on a message, the new message is in the msgid and the old one will be stored as a previous message.
It will look something like this: https://github.com/elixir-gettext/expo/blob/d3b6377edf24884f290efcaae1f5e346c39e3555/test/expo/po_test.exs#L500
@whatyouhide It would probably make sense to handle this the same as #315
@maennchen sorry for the long wait. I agree, having this behind an option (like :on_obsolete) sounds great. By the way, #| is the "official" GNU Gettext comment for old fuzzy matches, right?
@whatyouhide I‘ll do that 👍
No, the official way fur fuzzy is the fuzzy flag.
The pipe comment signals the previous mesage.
If I extrat the string Hello World and change it to Hello Worlds, we identify it as fuzzy. We no longer have the initial extracted string though.
With bigger translations, it can be helpful for the translator to know how the message changed so that he can apply the same change to the current translation.
Yeah I’m down for that 👍 My question was: do "previous translations" have an official comment in GNU Gettext?
@whatyouhide Yes, the #| syntax is official.
See: https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/PO-Files.html
white-space # translator-comments #. extracted-comments #: reference… #, flag… #| msgid previous-untranslated-string msgid untranslated-string msgstr translated-string[...]
The previous-untranslated-string is optionally inserted by the msgmerge program, at the same time when it marks a message fuzzy. It helps the translator to see which changes were done by the developers on the untranslated-string.
Ah that's fantastic. Let's go for the option then, and we'll be good to go here.
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