On 08/12/07 18:47, Jaroslaw Swierczynski wrote:
2007/8/12, VDR User user.vdr@gmail.com:
What I'm wondering is what real benefit this method has over the old one? Just seems like adding more steps and in the end its just the same result/no benefit. I'm sure someone will correct me on that though. :)
Just take a look at a .po file and you will understand. I'm sure maintaing the old language file was a nightmare for Klaus.
Well, it was, at times. Especially when I received new updates from several translators, often even beased on different versions.
Now maintainers can concentrate on their language file(s) and send them to me independent of all other languages.
It's also way simpler to add a new translation (I wonder when one of our neighbo(u)rs will write a colo(u)rful en_UK version ;-).
Klaus