Re: how many strings for 3.3 ?

 On 19/08/10 22:00, Lior Kaplan wrote:
> I tried to find out what is the status of the Hebrew UI translation
> comparing to other languages on the pootle servers.
>
> I found out that each language has different number in the total strings in
> the pootle server.
>
> chinise has 105835 strings, Hungarian 91812, Arabic 91430, Portuguese
> 91408...
> 21 other languages have 90654 strings while Assamese has 193710 (!) strings.
>
> and my question is WTF ?! Doesn't the UI have a fixed number of strings ?
>
> p.s.
> While translating I also found a lot of similar strings with difference only
> in the location of ~ in the string.
> I think I translated automatic at least 10 times (~automatic, a~utomatic,
> aut~omatic ...).
> I don't believe it's relevant for all languages.
>
> Kaplan
>

Yes, the amount should be fixed, so what's going on... Could be
incorrectly merged files, missing ones, etc. Or the Pootle statistics is
plain wrong.
Regarding the identical strings; hopefully these can be reused more in
future releases, but that would mean rewriting parts of the source code,
which probably isn't high on the list for this issue.

-Olav.