Re: po translation miss in ja.po of gawk 3.1.6.

[Aharon Robbins]

I admit that this was handled poorly.  The FSF advised me to change
the translation files on this message, and on all the ones where I
could identify the "2" and change it to "3", I did.  Clearly I
wasn't able to change the 2 on this one.

I am sorry for the confusion.  I will sync the translations as soon
as I have more stuff to put in the CVS archive.  I don't know when
there'll be another release.

Thanks

Arnold

> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:13:24 +0100
> From: Bruno Haible <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: po translation miss in ja.po of gawk 3.1.6.
> To: Aharon Robbins <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> Cc: address@hidden
>
> Hello Aharon/Arnold,
>
> > > This means, the program maintainer manually removed the fuzzy flag here.
> > > This is bad; it goes against the rules of responsibility for the PO files
> > 
> > No, I did not. I don't know how it happened.
>
> Let's look at the revision history of po/ja.po in
>   http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/gawk-stable/po/ja.po?root=gawk&view=log
>
> Between version 1.18 and 1.19 it has this change:
>   
> http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/gawk-stable/po/ja.po?root=gawk&r1=1.18&r2=1.19
>
>   $ diff ja-1.18.po ja-1.19.po 
>   1629c1629
>   < "the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or\n"
>   ---
>   > "the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or\n"
>
> When a message has no fuzzy flag and the msgstr field is not empty, it means
> that the translator has validated the translation. The problem is that this
> change in CVS changed something in the PO file without adding the fuzzy flag -
> i.e. it effectively pretends that the translators have validated that the
> translation of "version 3" is "דƒ�דƒ¼ד‚¸דƒ§דƒ³ן¼’". If your mailer renders
> Unicode characters, you will see a "fullwidth digit 2" here.
>
> The 'fuzzy' mark at the TP site, on the other hand, was inserted automatically
> through msgmerge, when it noticed a msgid which was similar but not identical
> to a previous msgid. (The new msgid had "version 3" where the old msgid had
> "version 2".)
>
> Bruno