Re: Translations

[Ben Pfaff]

John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:

> On the subject of translations, I've been concerned for a while about
> the "Nick" and "Blurb" arguments to g_param_spec_* functions.  For
> completeness, these ought to be translated, however no  user of PSPP is
> ever going to see them.   For example "How many things can be selected".
> They exist only for the benefit of people using Glade to create or modify 
> dialog boxes.  So I think it's a waste of translators time including these 
> in the pspp.pot file.
>
> Unless anyone has a better proposal, I suggest that we start a "pspp-dev" 
> translation domain to hold these strings.  Translators need only translate
> this domain if they are extremely bored.

Is it really valuable to mark them as translatable if no user
will ever see them?  I see, from a "grep", that many of them are
not enclosed in _() anyhow.
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Ben Pfaff 
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