[Mailman-Developers] Mixed Languages in response messages

[Michael Heydekamp]

Simone Piunno <pioppo at ferrara.linux.it> wrote on 21.01.04:

> On Tuesday 20 January 2004 23:41, Michael Heydekamp wrote:

>> I'm not too familiar with the format and the logic of mailman.po
>> (although I made some successful changes and corrections), but it
>> might have to do with the 'fuzzy' line here:

[...]

> that "fuzzy" tag means this translation is *disabled* (the software
> wil pretend it's not there).
> The tag is automatically inserted by the msgmerge tool whenever a
> translation is associated to a new original string using a best
> effort guess. So, until the translator edits the file, confirming the
> fuzzy association is good (e.g removing the fuzzy tag) and/or adding
> improvements, this translation won't be used.

Ah, thanks for the explanation.

But as I said: Even if I remove the tag and recompile the file, the
translation is still not used.  What's wrong?

> And yes, this *is* a question for the -i18n list, because the
> internal format of a .po file is more familiar to translators than to
> coders.

Ok.  Probably we can clarify this particular question here, but I will
have more ones which I will then raise in -i18n.  OK?  :)

> BTW, try to add a -v when you compile the .po file, e.g.

Thx for the hint, I had just used -o so far.


        Michael