[Pkg-isocodes-devel] r1314 - trunk/iso-codes

[Christian Perrier]

Quoting Tobias Toedter (t.toedter at gmx.net):

> Yes, I agree with you. Normally, I do keep "obsolete" entries in po files,
> as they can be valuable, as you pointed out.
> 
> However, in this specific case the fuzzy matching does not seem to provide
> very useful results, but rather confusing entries. We do not have msgids
> which are sentences, but almost always just a single word, sometimes two or
> three. Therefore, the algorithm of the fuzzy matching has no realistic
> chance of finding a proper translation.
> 
> If you think that this is wrong, I'll revert the removal of those obsolete


No, we more or less share the same idea.

I suggest simply documenting this in the Makefile so it is clear that
we know this is not recommended, but is adapted when it comes at
iso-codes strings.

I even wonder if we shouldn't use "--no-fuzzy-matching" with msgmerge...

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