Re: cjl - r31785 - abiword/trunk/po

Chris Leonard <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.editors.abiword.devel
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On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Ingo Brückl <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Chris Leonard wrote on Mon, 20 Aug 2012 12:01:03 -0400:
>
>> It seems rather odd that it should choke on the obsoleted strings,
>> which was the only candidate I saw for producing this error.
>
> msgmerge uses these "obsoleted strings" when new strings appear in the .pot
> file for msgids matching either exactly or fuzzily, so they aren't obsolete,
> but currently unused, once translated strings (and thus valuable objects).
> This assignment can't be done if the msgid isn't unique.

Ingo, why are you picking nits over my use of the term "obsoleted
strings" when I am referring to those strings at the bottom of the
file commented out by #~

Even the gettext manual refers to them as "obsolete"?

http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Obsolete-Entries.html

cjl
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