[Xfce-i18n] Warning: many xfce .po files have been corrupted on Transifex.com

[Pjotr Vertaalt]

@Dimitris: I do....

I use both your excellent online editor at Transifex.com, and Gedit. The
online editor for the day-to-day translations, and Gedit when I want to see
if the translation is in good state "under the hood".

Both tools are important to me...


2013/9/19 Dimitris Glezos <glezos at transifex.com>

>
> Do people still open PO files in text editors?
>
> {picard-facepalm}
>
> -d
>
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 4:01 AM, Pjotr Vertaalt <pjotrvertaalt at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Well, it's simply easier to read in a text editor, when the layout of the
>> msgid is exactly the same as the layout of the msgstr.
>>
>> Especially when \n has been used a lot....
>>
>>
>> 2013/9/19 Kevin Brubeck Unhammer <unhammer at fsfe.org>
>>
>>>  Dimitris Glezos <glezos at transifex.com> writes:
>>>
>>> > It's better to save a string in that form, no reason to split a string
>>> > if the splitting isn't doing anything.
>>> >
>>> > Unless I misunderstood something, I'm not seeing why Gedit would make
>>> > it harder to translate a string like that. If it does, maybe a bug
>>> > report on Gedit would be a good idea..
>>>
>>> The reason to split is to keep lines short and readable, especially for
>>> people with small screens (less of an argument now than back when the
>>> gettext format was first created, I guess). I believe many offline po
>>> editors do this splitting.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Kevin Brubeck Unhammer
>>>
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