From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dwayne Bailey Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Translation-i18n] Re: Pattern for spell-checking in po-files. Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 20:44:39 +0200 Organization: Obsidian Systems Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3EF4A797.8040805@obsidian.co.za> References: <1261.1053715963@ichips.intel.com> <22437.1053724089@kdstevens.com> <16078.38915.165093.791379@uebn.uddeborg.pp.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============6810201747746718==" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1056349800 18611 80.91.224.249 (23 Jun 2003 06:30:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 06:30:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 23 08:29:58 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19UKpy-0004pw-00 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 08:29:58 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19UKst-0006bZ-00 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 08:32:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19UKpQ-0002xw-4r for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 02:29:24 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19UKp0-0002sm-Kh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 02:28:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19UKoz-0002q6-4W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 02:28:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [196.22.215.11] (helo=krakatau.ctn.obsidian.co.za) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19UKox-0002b1-U6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 02:28:56 -0400 Original-Received: from obsidian.co.za (unknown [192.168.3.42]) by krakatau.ctn.obsidian.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id A015B401E; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 08:39:55 +0200 (SAST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030313 X-Accept-Language: en-za, en-gb, en-us, en Original-To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=F6ran_Uddeborg?= In-Reply-To: <16078.38915.165093.791379@uebn.uddeborg.pp.se> Original-cc: Bruno Haible Original-cc: Kenny Stevens Original-cc: translation-i18n@lists.sourceforge.net Original-cc: Karl Eichwalder X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:15189 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:15189 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --===============6810201747746718== content-type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------080109030205050204060407" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------080109030205050204060407 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Göran Uddeborg wrote: >Kenny Stevens writes: > > >>Do we _always_ want to only check the msgstr values, or does it make >>sense to check the English text as well? >> >> > >It doesn't really make sense to check the msgid. The msgid is a key >which is looked up by a program, where the text comes from. If the >msgid was corrected in the po-file, the result would be this entry >would never be found. Spelling checking of those would need to be >done and corrected in the source C/C++/etc. file to be meaningful. > > It does make sense to check the msgid if you want to spell check the original untranslated English. The corrections in the PO would be useless but finding the errors and correcting them via a jump to source or by sending info to MSGID_BUG_ADDRESS is very usefull. -- Kind regards Dwayne Bailey Obsidian Systems dwayne@obsidian.co.za +27-21-448 9265 / 7827 (work) +27-21-448 9574 (fax) +27-83-443 7114 (cell) "An English-only, or even an English-mainly, policy necessarily condemns most people, and thus the country as a whole, to a permanent state of mediocrity, since people are unable to be spontaneous, creative and self-confident if they cannot use their first language" Dr Neville Alexander - 'Where English can Serve but not Empower.' --------------080109030205050204060407 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Göran Uddeborg wrote:
Kenny Stevens writes:
  
Do we _always_ want to only check the msgstr values, or does it make
sense to check the English text as well?
    

It doesn't really make sense to check the msgid.  The msgid is a key
which is looked up by a program, where the text comes from.  If the
msgid was corrected in the po-file, the result would be this entry
would never be found.  Spelling checking of those would need to be
done and corrected in the source C/C++/etc. file to be meaningful.
It does make sense to check the msgid if you want to spell check the original untranslated English.  The corrections in the PO would be useless but finding the errors and correcting them via a jump to source or by sending info to MSGID_BUG_ADDRESS is very usefull.

-- 
Kind regards
Dwayne Bailey

Obsidian Systems         
dwayne@obsidian.co.za     +27-21-448 9265 / 7827 (work)        
+27-21-448 9574 (fax)     +27-83-443 7114 (cell)

"An English-only, or even an English-mainly, policy necessarily condemns
most people, and thus the country as a whole, to a permanent state of
mediocrity, since people are unable to be spontaneous, creative and
self-confident if they cannot use their first language"         
         Dr Neville Alexander - 'Where English can Serve but not Empower.'
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