Re: Reorganization of the translation files

On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 12:00:46PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> > I was thinking about organizing the translation files in a more efficient
> > manner. (not for 8.0, obviously)
> > [snip]
> > And it would easily solve issues like translatable strings
> > appearing in the pgport library, which has no makefile structure to support
> > translations (which would be a waste for like 5 strings), and no run-time
> > support either.
>
> Sounds like a win to me on that grounds alone; but probably the
> translators need to have the biggest say here, since they'll be affected
> the most.

The biggest downside I see is the long execution time for msgmerge.
I can live with that, especially if it will save me translating "out of
memory" six or seven times.

The other downside is that the cool status table will be reduced to one
line. I can live with that too ...

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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>)
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