Robin
Does this software provide a better UI than transifex?
I have poedit installed for a long time. You’ll not see neither source code in it, nor line numbers, the latter not even if present as remarks in .po files. Only way is to open .po file directly in text editor and search for the string, deriving from the remarks one line above msg ID the line number of source code, then open source code in text editor and search for this line number. This is something most translators won’t (can’t) do. It wouldn’t help much anyway, since if not being programmers themselves they wouldn’t understand from the findings in source code what this code actually executes, and to which part of UI it is correlated (given there is not an additional comment in source code, but even then: most translators won’t be able to distinguish comments in source code from the actual code)
If developer doesn’t give any hints, translators will be lost. We are well trained to guess things correctly in many cases, but some (like this one) are simply unknowable.
- This reply was modified 5 years, 4 months ago by Robin.
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