Re: Touching .po files (#45535)

On Tue, 6 Sept 2022 at 23:44, Marko Lindqvist <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> There's currently a patch for
> https://osdn.net/projects/freeciv/ticket/45535 in review, for
> S3_0/S3_1/master. That patch is going to touch core translation domain
> .po files directly. It's about fixing a typo in the English original
> string. In this case it's better to update related msgid in the .po
> files directly, so no translation gets turned to fuzzy status
> (certainly nobody needs to update their translation just because the
> typo fix in the original)
>
> The patch is likely to get pushed in two or three days. If you are
> working with an older copy of the .po file over that moment, you may
> want to do some extra checking that you don't revert this msgid change
> when you provide your translation updates, nor that you get fuzzy just
> because YOUR msgid does not match the original (corrected) string in
> the source code.

 This has now been pushed to the master repository.


 - ML