From 3435bb7f4021e7f05fbe317ebec34851effce27c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bo Borgerson Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:30:25 -0400 Subject: 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. --- HACKING | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING index 436341823..07026b11c 100644 --- a/HACKING +++ b/HACKING @@ -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 -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2