Re: gettext - msgmerge wish

[Bruno Haible]

> One of translator 's goal is "accuracy", for that goal, translator
> should not rely on msgmerge's word-to-word behaviour. That is, in
> different condition, translation of "Something A" can be
> "Translation A", "Translation A1", etc.
> 
> So I wish, when using -C  introduced in gettext-0.10.40, there
> is a parameter, which forces -C'ed translation to be marked as fuzzy.
> This give translator a better chance to check the translation.

Thanks for the interesting suggestion.

There is already a simple way to achieve what you want: Pipe the
compendium through "msgattrib --set-fuzzy" before passing it as an
argument to msgmerge. msgattrib is contained in gettext-0.11.

For this reason, I think it's not needed to introduce a new option in
msgmerge.

Bruno