Author: intrigeri Date: To: The metadata anonymisation toolkit mailing list Old-Topics: Re: [mat-dev] Regarding archives support Subject: Re: [mat-dev] (not) using uncommon terminology [Was: Regarding
archives support]
Hi,
intrigeri wrote (21 Jan 2014 12:25:20 GMT) : >>> Also, the OK button text should be something more specific, such as
>>> "Scour" (since it's apparently the new terminology; too bad many
>>> non-native speakers likely don't know what this means).
>> The reason of the apparition of this new terminology (Apart from
>> enriching my English vocabulary) is actually to help translators.
>> The MAT used to use the word "Clean", both as a verb/action, and as a
>> state. Now, the action is named "Scour", and the state "Clean" > Yes, I know the reason, I was the one who reported this issue.
> Aren't there ways to tell Python/gettext/whatever that two strings are
> really different from each other, and should result in two entries in
> the PO files, even if they are built from the same chars? If it was
> possible, then it would avoid using uncommon vocabulary, which matters
> very much for languages that have no translation yet.
