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| belgianguy | hi, I'm interested in translating for Ubuntu | 13:22 |
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| belgianguy | but I've had some odd experiences on Launchpad | 13:22 |
| belgianguy | I had been editing a terminal based template (which had indicators for both tabs and spaces), but when I saved my suggestion, it now displays without spaces, while I had placed them meticulously | 13:23 |
| belgianguy | I was wondering if for such templates it wouldn't be better to have a more visual guide | 13:24 |
| belgianguy | now I copied the template in sublime text and formatted it there, but such adornments do exist for websites as well | 13:25 |
| belgianguy | I Googled for a while, and found something called 'Ace Editor' http://ace.c9.io/#nav=about | 13:26 |
| belgianguy | that would correctly indent such templates and add more structure, as a wall of text in a textarea becomes a mess quite quickly | 13:27 |
| belgianguy | Another thing I noted was that there are several links to pages where 'preferred' translations are displayed | 13:28 |
| belgianguy | would it make sense to streamline such information, eg, something like a spell checker, but for often used words, something that could alert the user of their presence, and save him a few switches to the tabs where they are listed? | 13:30 |
| belgianguy | of course one cannot expect a translation to be interpreted, I merely mean something of a 2 column table below the original, stating the words that it found to match in your language | 13:33 |
| belgianguy | and could the submitting process be not more like something git does, but on the background? Eg when a user saves a new translation -> commit, and when a new suggestion comes in for that term -> pull request | 13:36 |
| belgianguy | Another thing I thought of was being able to copy the structure(spaces/tabs) but not the contents, eg mark them in red or green. Of course this isn't an exact science as words differ in each language, but it could be a good starting point, and perhaps only generate warnings rather than block submission when a violation is detected | 13:38 |
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| belgianguy | anyone here? | 15:36 |
| sasa84 | hi belgianguy | 15:45 |
| belgianguy | hi sasa84 | 15:46 |
| belgianguy | sasa84: do you know if tabs and spaces are preserved when submitting translations in Launchpad? | 16:00 |
| sasa84 | belgianguy, you men .po files? | 16:15 |
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