[Pkg-isocodes-devel] unfuzzying PO files

[Kamal Mostafa]

Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Kamal Mostafa (kamal at whence.com):
>   
>> sk.po - [...]acquired a new translation for MT-53 "Santa Lucija" as "Santa Cruz de Tenerife".  I removed those new entries.
>>     
> In general, I recommend never ever changing *translations* 
My thinking for this case was:   The original change is just the removal 
of trailing blanks -- no actual "name" information is being added or 
removed from any strings.  Therefore, no msgstr's should change as a 
result (except if it also needs a blank removed), and by the same token, 
no msgstr should become fuzzy as a result (or become unfuzzy if it was 
fuzzy already).

(Fuzzy thinking for a fuzzy case?)

> even if things look weird to us.
>   
Weird-looking is one thing, but if my change makes update-po generate 
*new* fuzzy-matched msgstr's that are obviously incorrect, should I 
really not revert those new msgstr's in the .po's?   How could I check 
in the new .po file, knowing full well that I am introducing new data 
which I *know* is incorrect?   MT-53 is simply *not* "Santa Cruz de 
Tenerife", no matter what the fuzzy matcher might think!  ;-)

 -Kamal
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