Re: how to get more recent translations for important web pages

Helge Kreutzmann <[email protected]> Sun, 3 Dec 2023 19:49:00 +0000

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Hello Holger,
Am Sun, Dec 03, 2023 at 07:27:04PM +0100 schrieb Holger Wansing:
> Am 3. Dezember 2023 18:48:18 MEZ schrieb Helge Kreutzmann <[email protected]>:
> >At least I (manpages-l10n) strive hard to have as many current
> >translations as possible, so users are able to read most of the page
> >in their langauge, even if the explantion for the latest option is not
> >yet translated (but they might be satisfied with the rest).
> >
> >Make it easy for the (few) translators and present as much as possible
> >translated.
> >
> >For mostly static text this is much easier than for highly dynamic,
> >that is of course true.
> 
> You know, that you cannot compare manpages with the website:
> the manpages are po based, and therefore you can have parts untranslated,
> but the rest visible in German.
> And you can not have outdated content: changed parts are marked as fuzzy and
> therefore fall back to English.
> The website is build of wml files, one file per page (in the very most cases),
> so the page is either up-to-date, or you get the warning banner.

I know all of this. This is why I suggested to improve the tooling,
instead of throwing out languages/translations.

Greetings

            Helge

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