[maemo-developers] Maemo localization to officially non-supported languages

[From: David Weinehall]

On ons, 2007-10-24 at 12:47 +0300, ext Mohammed Hassan wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 12:12 +0300, Marius Vollmer wrote:
> > > The problem is the logical IDs are needed to maintain the smooth
> > > process.  It's not easy to simply drop them. I did not say it's
> > > impossible. I didn't say it'll be done or it'll not. I'm just saying
> > > that they are needed ;-)
> > 
> > This might be so, but I honestly doubt it.  Can you elaborate?
> 
> They are used by l10n testing to easily check for untranslated strings
> (By me as well), to easily determine the originating UI spec, to design
> test cases and I'm sure they have more uses.

msgfmt will happily provide you with statistics about untranslated
strings and fuzzy translations, with the added bonus that it can be
automated.


Regards: David