[Libreoffice] Reducing duplicating strings

[Lior Kaplan]

On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 11:55 PM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 10:35:41PM +0100, Lior Kaplan wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > One of the things I noticed while working about LibO translation is the
> strong
> > deja-vu feeling. I keep thinking - wait, I've already translated this
> string. I
> > went to check the code, and found out there are actually a lot of
> duplicated
> > strings.
>
> In the meantime you can use a more intelligent translation tool, I used
> to use Virtaal[1], it has a very nicely presented translation UI for
> translation memory and it is very helpful with duplicated strings even
> across files (and even if not 100% duplicate). It was a real time saver
> for me (I used several PO editors trough the years, but Virtaal was the
> best, I don't do much l10n now).
>
> [1] http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/virtaal/index
>
>
Hi Khaled,

Thanks for the tip. I'm assuming most l10n team use pootle for the
translation, a would prefer to give a solution in the code level instead of
external tools. I know that all of my team uses the pootle interface and I
would prefer not to have them deal with PO files.

Kaplan
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