Re: Make lang.po override translations?

[Dora Scilipoti]

On 4/15/22 22:22, Jan Owoc wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 1:06 PM Dora Scilipoti <dora@gnu.org> wrote:
>>
>> if I understood correctly, the per-directory template
>> /proprietary/po/lang.po does not override the existing translations.
>>
>> Overriding would be useful in cases where the translator wants to
>> introduce improvements or fix translation mistakes in items that belong
>> to several files.
>>
>> Would it be possible?
> 
> I thought that the global "compendium" file would override
> translations if the string matches verbatim (eg. the footer of the
> page). It would make sense for the proprietary-specific compendium to
> behave the same way.

The global compendium.lang.po fills in untranslated strings but it
doesn't override existing translations. To override translations
globally master.lang.po is used.

What I'm asking is to have something like master.lang.po for the
/propietary directory.


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