Re: Errors in some LedgerSMB locale/po/ files

[Robert James Clay <..hidden..>]

On Sun, 2012-06-17 at 22:20 -0400, Chris Travers wrote in
ledger-smb-devel mailing list:
> On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Robert James Clay <..hidden..> wrote:
> >  One of the things available to Debian Package maintainers is a report
> > about possible package translation issues.  Checking the one for the
> > LedgerSMB package [1], I found the following files have "fatal errors":
> > nb.po, fi.po, es_AR.po, ar_EG.po, & es_AR.po.

> For Arabic, I don't even know where to start, as with fi.po and nb.po

   IIRC, those all seem to be issues like extra double quotes in the
translated string.  (I.E.;  don't necessarily need to know the language
in order to fix the error.) I could check...


> es_AR I could take a closer look at I suppose.
> 
> A larger question is what should we do with these translation files
> generally if they are unmaintained and have errors like this?

   Well, where did they come from originally? And how often do they
change? And are they still useful;  i.e., are the strings being
translated used by the application?  If so;  I could check with the
translators team (..hidden..) about them.  




Jame