[publican-list] Should verbatim tags be translated?

[Jeff Fearn]

On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 09:16 +1000, Ruediger Landmann wrote:
> That said, these are probably the exception rather than the norm. I 
> wonder whether pre-filling some msgstrs while updating PO files makes 
> sense? For example, if no existing msgstr exists for the msgid of 
> verbatim content in the PO file, Publican could pre-fill the msgstr with 
> the content of the mgsid and tag it "fuzzy"? Obviously, even assuming 
> that's possible, we would need input from translators to see if that's 
> desirable...

I don't see any point in pre-filling in this way. The translators will
see it as untranslated and, AIUI, all the GUI tools have options to copy
the msgid to the msgstr.

Cheers, Jeff.

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