Re: [Tails-l10n] German translation

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Subject: Re: [Tails-l10n] German translation
Frithjof:
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 2:01 PM, u <u@???> wrote:
> in case you did't saw this already:
> https://tails.boum.org/contribute/build/website/
> describes how one can build the wiki offline.


yep, thanks.

>> I wonder though: do you edit files with poedit?
>> If i do so, it changes the line breaks, putting every msgstr into a
>> single line. Note that in poedit's settings i have set for CF/LR
>> converting : "Unix" & "keep existing catalog formats". But i observe
>> this behaviour anyway. How do you deal with this issue? It makes version
>> changes a little bit complicated to track, that's why i'm asking.
>
> i am using emacs' poedit mode; also because i never figured out how to
> deal with linewrapping in poedit.


ok. i ended up in vim :)

>> Next question, the files in master/po (which were pulled from
>> Transifex), should they be re-edited on Transifex directly? I saw some
>> strangely translated lines in there.
>
> Yes. Although I would love to find out if it is (im)possible to script
> Transifex so that one can simply push to Transifex from a git
> repository.


There seems to be an API.
http://support.transifex.com/customer/portal/articles/1026117-translation-strings-api

However i am not sure if projects need to pay for using this API, or if
this is accessible to any project maintainer.

u.