Re: Errors in some LedgerSMB locale/po/ files

[Chris Travers <..hidden..>]

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.  I checked them as they
> are in v1.3.18, since that is what the current report is against.
>
>  The first three, if I understand them correctly, are relatively easy
> to fix;  at least, if I tried correcting them, the output of msgfmt
> changed to just complaining about missing headers.  It also shows that
> the es_AR.po has 12 instances of the error "duplicate message
> definition";  that does seem to be the case but I'm not sure which set
> is supposed to be the correct one.

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

Best Wishes,
Chris Travers