Re: Is translating server messages really worth it?

On 25.09.23 20:45, Guillaume Lelarge wrote:
> So, yeah, I'm kinda wondering if it makes sense to translate server
> messages. For client tools, such as psql or pg_dump or vacuumdb, it
> definitely makes sense. But the server logs? I pretty much don't know.
> It's a lot of work, with some nearly-impossible-to-translate messages.
>
> Anyway, I was wondering how you feel about this.

I think it would be good if we could prioritize messages somehow. I
think there'd be a lot of value with, like, the most important 500
messages in the server.

I have no idea how to arrange that.

> And I have another question, quite a bit related :) If a file (let's say
> psql-fr.po) is not translated at 80%, it's not distributed. But I was
> wondering if it was only this file (psql-fr.po) or all the files for
> this language? I'm considering leaving the postgres-fr.po file without
> any translation, but keep the other files up to date.

For the record, this is per file.