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| author | Bo Borgerson <gigabo@gmail.com> | 2008-06-16 18:30:25 -0400 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2008-06-17 08:29:23 +0200 |
| commit | 3435bb7f4021e7f05fbe317ebec34851effce27c (patch) | |
| tree | 6a78957c08e150a823dc738678365cc2a82a2219 | |
| parent | 96ae7199c4614b88e8c63ec1327e3e4fbb1ec2c0 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-3435bb7f4021e7f05fbe317ebec34851effce27c.tar.xz | |
HACKING: Add section for tips on reducing translator workload.
* HACKING (Be nice to translators): New section.
Add Jim's suggestion to avoid changing translatable strings if possible.
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@@ -273,6 +273,15 @@ Write "Type const *var", not "const Type *var". FIXME: dig up justification +Be nice to translators +====================== +Don't change translatable strings if you can avoid it. +If you must rearrange individual lines (e.g., in multi-line --help +strings), extract and create new strings, rather than extracting +and moving into existing blocks. This avoids making unnecessary +work for translators. + + Add tests ========== Nearly every significant change must be accompanied by a test suite |