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From: Daniel Gustafsson <[email protected]>
To: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Geoghegan <[email protected]>
Cc: Guillaume Lelarge <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Is translating server messages really worth it?
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2023 15:10:21 +0200
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

> On 4 Oct 2023, at 11:10, Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On 2023-Sep-28, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> 
>> Could we group messages that have all-or-nothing translations required, like
>> --help output, with separate msgctxt contexts?  So "pg_dump --help" would be
>> "msgctxt pg_dump_help_screen" in the po file, which then could be analyzed in
>> order to make the call for including translationfiles or not?
> 
> This is an interesting idea.  So for that kind of thing (help screens)
> we would require a very high percentage in order to include it with the
> bundle (say 90%), but it would be a very small catalog so easy to
> translate; and for other things, say the bulk of server messages, we
> would require a lesser percentage in order to be included (even 60%
> could be more than good enough IMO).
> 
> I'm not sure how that would work, however.

Neither do I, I need to educate myself more on the translation infra and
process in order to have a better idea if it's at all feasible.  I am
interested in making it easier to contribute a new translation, or reboot a
stale one, and lowering the overall requirement while keeping the requirement
high on the most relevant bits seem like a way forward.

--
Daniel Gustafsson

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