[Freeciv-Dev] Re: status of translations

["Pieter J. Kersten" <kersten@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Per I Mathisen wrote:

> German: 2 untranslated messages
> Dutch: 10 untranslated messages

Updated ;-)

> Swedish: 11 untranslated messages
> Spanish: 11 untranslated messages
> French: 71 untranslated messages
> Italian: 160 untranslated messages
> Finnish: 170 untranslated messages
> Russian:  187 untranslated messages
> Japanese: 348 untranslated messages
> Danish: 456 untranslated messages
> Norwegian: 456 untranslated messages
> Hungarian: 476 untranslated messages
> Portugese: 751 untranslated messages
> Polish: 808 untranslated messages
> Romanian: 981 untranslated messages
> Brazilian Portugese: 1361 untranslated messages
> British English: 2862 untranslated messages
> 
> I suggest we retire Brazilian Portugese, as Brazilians can use Portugese
> instead.
> 
> Also, please translators: Use the ./check_po.pl script to find errors in
> your translation files. Report false positives to the list so that they
> can be fixed.
>

I'm glad to see it works again. There is a problem though: since some time 
the msgstr's and msgid's get wrapped, resulting in a *lot* of
'Possible non-whitespace line-join problem in ...' warnings. It pollutes 
the output of check_po.pl and thus its usability. Hints welcome.
 
> These numbers are generated by "msgfmt *.po --statistics". Maybe we could
> use that to autogenerate a web page about the status of the various
> translations? That way, people can see where help is needed.
> 

Nice, it would also keep up the pressure :-\

-- 
Pieter J. Kersten