Re: [poedit-users] Optimizing a vocabulary for TM

Hi,

Leonardo Fontenelle wrote:
> I'm a GNOME translator, and I use poEdit for most of my
> translations. I'm building some kind of extension to gnome-glossary
> [1]  to improve uniformity in translations and make them easier,
> but I need some advice on how long should be the vocabulary strings
> to maximize the number of automatically translated strings.

Poedit's TM  doesn't work the way I think you assume. It translates 
*sentences* (actually, gettext strings), not individual words or 
expressions inside them, so it doesn't matter how long the terms in 
your glossary are, they won't be picked up by poedit unless you're 
translating a string that consists only of the term in the glossary.

See here for more details on how fuzzy matching is implemented (it's 
in a comment near the top of the file):

http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.cgi/poedit/poedit/trunk/src/transmem.cpp?view=markup

Having better support for glossaries would be nice, though.

> And I'd like to know if it helps to add plurals ("icon", "icons")

Yes.

> and different cases ("Icon", "icon").

No.

HTH,
Vaclav

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