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

[Willy Raets]

On do, 2015-01-01 at 10:02 +0100, Benoît Minisini wrote:
> Le 30/12/2014 23:34, Willy Raets a écrit :
> > 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.
> >
> 
> It has been added in revision #6786. I didn't really test it, so please 
> report any problem!
> 
> Regards,
> 

I'll report back as soon as I have tested it. First need to update a
system to the latest revision.

-- 
Kind regards,

Willy (aka gbWilly)

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