Re: [Health-dev] [bug #63403] Change translation setup

[Feng Shu]

Mathias Behrle <m9s@mailbox.org> writes:

> * Feng Shu: " [Health-dev] [bug #63403] Change translation setup" (Thu, 25 May
>   2023 21:19:05 -0400 (EDT)):
>
>> > we should change the setup of the translation to improve quality of the  
>> same. 
>
> This is not a problem of the setup of the translation, see below.
>
>> report translation has more problem, I think.
>> many report strings split abnormal, and they will confusing translators 
>> and waste translators's time。  
>> 
>> 1. https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?61875> 2. 
>> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?61874> 3. 
>> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?61873> 4. 
>> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?61872> 5. 
>> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?61871> 
>> 
>> I am considering whether I should delete all zh_CN translations of abnormal
>> reports strings
>> for they let report looks ugly. 
>> 
>> New created reports have this problem too, for example:
>> 
>> ```
>> msgctxt "report:preoperative_assessment:"
>> msgid "essment"
>> msgstr "essment"
>> 
>> msgctxt "report:preoperative_assessment:"
>> msgid "s"
>> msgstr "s"
>> 
>> msgctxt "report:surgery:"
>> msgid "(ID"
>> msgstr "(ID"
>> 
>> msgctxt "report:surgery:"
>> msgid ")"
>> msgstr ")"
>> 
>> ```  
>
> It is a known issue (and PITA) with open document templates. It happens when
> libreoffice splits strings into separate formats.
>
> Only remedy is to reformat the whole string so that the split gets removed
> which can be done either in libreoffice or manually directly on the fodx file.
>

I am interested in doing report templates updates to solve translation
problem. But my question is, will my updates be accepted and merged if
no serious issues ?

Because it seems to quite time-consuming, and I have found that report
templates bugs seem to no maintainers pays attention. so I need to
confirm in advance.


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