[MPlayer-DOCS] CVS: main/help help_mp-en.h,1.111,1.112

Diego Biurrun diego at biurrun.de
Tue Nov 4 20:24:53 CET 2003


Arpi writes:
 > > >  > in libmpdemux/video.c to
 > > >  > 
 > > >  > 	    mp_msg(MSGT_DECVIDEO,MSGL_INFO,MSGTR_EnterTelecineMode);
 > > >  > 
 > > >  > ?
 > > > 
 > > > As Rich pointed out in IRC the translations still have that line.  The
 > > > solution IMHO is to just remove the line from all translated files, it
 > > > has to be redone anyways.
 > > > 
 > > > Maybe we should even make this into policy.  This way people will
 > > > always get up to date messages and translators will not forget to
 > > > update some messages.  Missing messages always get noticed, reworded
 > > > messages sometimes do not.
 > > 
 > > I suppose IMHO we should make this into policy: If the message is
 > > changed, it's name (#define'd) also _must_ be changed.
 > 
 > Yes. Otherwise translators (help-diff.sh) won't find the change.
 > And especially when it contains format string (%s etc) it's critical.

I agree we should have a policy about this, but alternatively we can
just remove a message from all translations when it has changed.  It's
not too difficult with sed.  The other alternative may be slightly
less work but probably we'll start collecting cruft in the help files
this way when the old messages never get removed.  So what's better?

Diego



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