[Libreoffice] Nonsense comments?

Christina Roßmanith ChrRossmanith at web.de
Tue Mar 1 11:42:47 PST 2011


To summarize:

Andras isn't interested in keeping the comments.
Christian could tell the meaning of '~'.
Nobody votes for keeping the ACHTUNG/ATTENTION comments. So I conclude, 
we can start to remove them. I guess they aren't of any help if gettext 
might be used someday?!?

Christina

Am 28.02.2011 16:37, schrieb Andras Timar:
> 2011/2/28 Christina Roßmanith<ChrRossmanith at web.de>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I admit, I can't follow the discussion. But during translation: are the '~'
>> important?
>>
>> Some lines of a diff for translation of comments:
>>
>> -            /* ### ACHTUNG: Neuer Text in Resource? Grafik ~kopieren :
>> ~Grafik kopieren */
>> -            /* ### ACHTUNG: Neuer Text in Resource? Grafik ~kopieren :
>> ~Grafik kopieren */
>> -            /* ### ACHTUNG: Neuer Text in Resource? Grafik ~kopieren :
>> ~Grafik kopieren */
>> +            /* ### ATTENTION: new text in resource? copy graphic : copy
>> graphic */
>> +            /* ### ATTENTION: new text in resource? copy graphic : copy
>> graphic */
>> +            /* ### ATTENTION: new text in resource? copy graphic : copy
>> graphic */
>>
>> And it seems that there is a certain redundancy. Or is it important to keep
>> three copies of the same line. Is "ACHTUNG" a keywort which is searched for?
>> Or is it safe to translate it to "ATTENTION"?
>>
>> Thank you for any low-level explanation  :-)
> Hi,
>
> I don't think we need /* ### ACHTUNG: comments at all in resource
> files. Probably they were inserted by a script long time ago, when the
> source language was German. They do not look useful now. They can be
> removed.
>
> Just my 2 cents...
>
> Cheers,
> Andras
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