[Gambas-user] Gambas translator behaviour (expected or bug?)

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 30/12/2014 14:57, Willy Raets a écrit :
> Hi all,
>
> I was wondering next about the Gambas translator:
> When importing .po files send to me by a translator, only the empty
> strings get imported.
> If a translator has changed a earlier translated string to a more
> correct translation these modified strings do NOT get imported because
> there is already an earlier translated string present that needs the
> corrected string instead.
>
> Is this expected behaviour or a bug?
>
> For now I work around this by deleting the entire translation for the
> specific language and next importing the .po file.
>
> Note that I am using Gambas 3.5.4 and didn't test this for Gambas 3.6.x
> So maybe this behaviour is no longer.
>
>

It is the expected behaviour, because the import feature was done just 
to get not yet translated strings from other translation files. Not for 
importing a new translation.

Maybe I should add a "replace existing translations" option?

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Benoît Minisini