Re: [Translation-i18n] Re: Pattern for spell-checking in po-files.

[Dwayne Bailey]

Göran Uddeborg wrote:
> Kenny Stevens writes:
> > Do we _always_ want to only check the msgstr values, or does it make
> > sense to check the English text as well?
> >   
>
> It doesn't really make sense to check the msgid.  The msgid is a key
> which is looked up by a program, where the text comes from.  If the
> msgid was corrected in the po-file, the result would be this entry
> would never be found.  Spelling checking of those would need to be
> done and corrected in the source C/C++/etc. file to be meaningful.
It does make sense to check the msgid if you want to spell check the
original untranslated English.  The corrections in the PO would be
useless but finding the errors and correcting them via a jump to source
or by sending info to MSGID_BUG_ADDRESS is very usefull.

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