[zanata-users] Changing base strings

[leonhard at kreissig.de]

Anyone?

Leo
Am 14. Nov. 2018, 16:19 +0100 schrieb Leonhard Kreissig <leonhard at kreissig.de>:
> Heyho,
>
> I’m currently maintaining a project that contains many faulty base strings (in English).
> I’ve set up a new translation to English where native speakers corrected the strings.
>
> Now I want to swap the strings so in case my i18n tools fail there are correct strings and so ‚real‘ translators for other languages have a good base to work upon.
>
> My project uses gettext, so .po/.pot format.
>
> I’ve written a script that moves the corrected msgstr’s to the msgid field and the faulty msgid’s to previous_msgid. I hoped Zapata would recognize that and keep all the translations (The translators would be really really angry if they had to start from the beginning).
>
> Does anyone have an idea to swap the base strings and keep the translations?
>
> My script is capable of inserting the new base strings in already translated po-files, but I can’t upload them to Zapata anyways.
>
> Leo
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