Hi Arpad,

Interesting info - I have always wondered what 'fuzzy' meant. :-)

Could you add this info to the TranslationInformation wiki page? I think this would be valuable for translators to see in the future.

http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?TranslationInformation

Bryce

On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Arpad Biro wrote:

Dear Inkscape Translators,

Recently I noticed (in de.po and pt_BR.po) that a lot of translated strings still carry the "fuzzy" tag. Please keep in mind that after translating a string that carried the "fuzzy" tag, YOU HAVE TO REMOVE THE FUZZY TAG - otherwise this translation will be discarded when creating the machine-readable translation file (*mo), which means that your work of translating those strings will be lost.

Examples of how to remove the "fuzzy" tag:

#: src/dialogs/desktop-properties.cpp:758 #, fuzzy msgid "Custom" msgstr "Personalizado"

becomes

#: src/dialogs/desktop-properties.cpp:758 msgid "Custom" msgstr "Personalizado"

after translating, and

#: src/dialogs/object-attributes.cpp:130 #, fuzzy, c-format msgid "%s attributes" msgstr "%s atributos"

becomes

#: src/dialogs/object-attributes.cpp:130 #, c-format msgid "%s attributes" msgstr "%s atributos"

Alternatively, you can use KBabel for translating, so that the fuzzy tags are automatically removed after modifying a fuzzy string. KBabel also does a lot of other things for you (like updating the PO-Revision-Date field). I recommend using that software to everyone.

Thanks for your hard work and let me know if you have questions.

Arpad Biro

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Arpad Biro <biro_arpad@...36...> writes:

Recently I noticed (in de.po and pt_BR.po) that a lot of translated strings still carry the "fuzzy" tag.

Most of them are put in by msgmerge (translators can add them too of course), and in the de.po, they are left in there on purpose - these string haven't been checked yet. Joerg (jerkfm on SF) has updated my de.po version and we hope to have it finished early next week.

Alternatively, you can use KBabel for translating,

Or emacs' po-mode, or gtranslator. :) (and at some point I also wanted to try http://www.kvdb.net/projects/grut/)

Cheers, Colin