[bt-devel] i18n

Martin Gruner bt-devel@crosswire.org
Thu, 5 Dec 2002 22:15:29 +0100


Hi Gary,

> Before I do commit the changes back to CVS, will these changes affect
> the translations in any way. I am worried that the msgid will change.
> Most of the changes are in the tool tips or labels on the dialogs, but
> one change is to a menu item, I would like to change "Save to new
> profile" to "Save as a new profile". Will that effect the .po files?

No. The extraction tool and the gettext tools that are used in the backgound 
are very clever. They will detect these changes and reuse as much as possible 
of the old translation. So just go ahead and change everything that needs 
change.

Martin