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From: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
To: Guillaume Lelarge <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Is translating server messages really worth it?
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2023 16:32:02 +0100
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On 25.09.23 20:45, Guillaume Lelarge wrote:
> So, yeah, I'm kinda wondering if it makes sense to translate server 
> messages. For client tools, such as psql or pg_dump or vacuumdb, it 
> definitely makes sense. But the server logs? I pretty much don't know. 
> It's a lot of work, with some nearly-impossible-to-translate messages.
> 
> Anyway, I was wondering how you feel about this.

I think it would be good if we could prioritize messages somehow.  I 
think there'd be a lot of value with, like, the most important 500 
messages in the server.

I have no idea how to arrange that.

> And I have another question, quite a bit related :) If a file (let's say 
> psql-fr.po) is not translated at 80%, it's not distributed. But I was 
> wondering if it was only this file (psql-fr.po) or all the files for 
> this language? I'm considering leaving the postgres-fr.po file without 
> any translation, but keep the other files up to date.

For the record, this is per file.

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