Re: Translation updates: errors_ru.properties

On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Kris Jurka wrote:

> Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 12:37:01 -0500 (EST)
>
> On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Serguei A. Mokhov wrote:
>
> > Peter E. and the pgAdmin team make it easier for translators by maintaing
> > the pages [1] and [2], with the new strings automatically merged in, to
> > ease up the job of translators who don't have necessarily the source tree
> > installed and possibly gettext or otherwise tools.
>
> Well these projects are a little different because they do use gettext
> which automatically produces the po files.  We considered using gettext
> for the JDBC driver, but kind of stalled because we did not want to add
> any build dependencies.  We could do this by checking the compiled files
> into cvs, but that isn't ideal either.  I'd still like to move to gettext
> because I think the current system is error prone (and more work) for both
> developers and translators.
>
> > It'd be cool if the JDBC project had a similar page updated daily or some
> > such, because it's a bit more tedious with the .properties files to find
> > what's missing than with .po files.
>
> There are probably tools to compare properties files and merge them
> accordingly, but I'm not immediately aware of them.  The problem is when
> the English message changes there is no way to notice and update the
> translated message.

Totally agree with you on all of the above.

> In the end I think the correct solution is to move to
> gettext.

When do you think that might happen?

> Kris Jurka
>

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