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

[Willy Raets]

On di, 2014-12-30 at 23:04 +0100, Benoît Minisini wrote:
> 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?
> 

That would be a great feature.

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Kind regards,

Willy (aka gbWilly)

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