[publican-list] Entities and Translation

[Jeffrey Fearn]

Joshua Wulf wrote:
> On 12/14/2010 10:09 AM, Jeffrey Fearn wrote:
>> Joshua Wulf wrote:
>>> We're using entities for product names in cases where a doc is shared
>>> between an upstream project and an enterprise product.
>>>
>>> I think there was some stricture against using entities for product
>>> names because of translation issues. Is this still an issue, and are
>>> "entities for product names" still frowned upon in polite society /
>>> verboten?
>>>
>>> If they are, couldn't we have something like:
>>>
>>> publican update_po --resolve-ents
>>>
>>> Where the first step is to resolve all entities, followed by the
>>> generation of po-files from the "exported xml with entities resolved"?
>>>
>>> That way we could share a single source file between a product and a
>>> project, and enterprise translations would have the product name
>>> translated appropriately for the target language.
>> But you can't share the translations, which is 20 times as much effort.
>>
>> Or you can share the translations, but every time you change the entity 
>> you create masses of work for translation because of all the fuzzy entries.
>>
>> Maybe some of the translation team might want to speak up on these 
>> issues and let us know if they see any solutions to this given the 
>> varying restrictions of the languages they translate too.
>>
>> Cheers, Jeff.
>>
> 
> You can't share the translations between a product / project xml fork
> either.

Plenty of projects already do this.

> The translation effort is the same whether you change the product name
> through an entity or an xml fork.

This is contrary to the input I have received from translators. You'll 
forgive me for granting them considerably more weight for their opinions 
in this area.

> If we leverage the same xml between product / project we save effort in
> part of the equation.

$ man sed

Cheers, Jeff.

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