Re: msgmerge feature request - 'compendium' flag wanted

[Bruno Haible]

Hello Karl,

Karl Eichwalder wrote:
> If you merge (update) PO files using compendia, it sometimes is useful
> to mark translations originating from the compendia with a special flag
> ('fuzzy' could be good enough, but a new flag like 'compendium' would be
> better).  So the user could easily check, whether compendium provided
> translations are appropriate.

Can you explain a bit more about the use case? If the translator trusts
the compendium, she uses "msgattrib --set-fuzzy"; otherwise she uses
"msgattrib --clear-fuzzy".

Also, these markers in the PO files are made to survive any number of
msgmerge invocations. Is this important here? If not, wouldn't an "msgdiff"
program be more appropriate for the task?

Bruno