[Kbabel] corrupted TM databases

[Yury Tarasievich]

Glory, glory. Dumping and loading helped, with
neglectable loss of content. Thanks to all concerned!

There *was* something wrong with
translations.<langcode>.db database, and attempt to
dump it with no -r/-R parameter lead to infinitely
growing output. However, -r helped.

This experience, and related digging in the kbabel
datadirs, uncovered some unpleasant inconsistencies in
kbabel when dealing with TM (currently, in kbabel
3.4.3). These are:

- 1. "rough translation" wants to open the <en-US> TM
databases, disregarding the langcode defined in
project;

- "2. find [and replace]" wants to open the <en-US> TM
databases, too, with additional BAD side-effect of
everything changed (e.g., corrected!) landing in en-US
(I remember wondering where did the en-US TM with
translated content come from :)

Both of these may or may not be helped by setting the
langcode in the "default project" settings prior to
executing the function, I didn't dig much.

Also, I noticed Kbabel is constantly touching the TM
.db's, even when not having written there actually. I
do just a search (auto-search, actually) and all 4
.db's modification times change?! This doesn't seem
the sanest behaviour to me.

3. Then, there's the issue of po's converted with
translate toolkit (tranlate.sf.net). Kbabel insist on
keys (so, msgid's) being unique, while it is not
uncommon in, e.g., converted mozilla material, to see
something like this (content is faked for the sake of
example, the format is real):

#: example1.label
msgid "string A"
msgstr "translation B"

#: example2.label
msgid "string A"
msgstr "translation C"

Then Kbabel doesn't want either to show the status of
.po, or to save such file. 

I don't know how it should be solved correctly, per
project setting of msg* commands, perhaps? Or adding
the understanding of the "translate'd" .po syntax,
possibly? 

Is something like this planned? I'm very keen to get
this feature, I may even be willing to program it
myself. I know C/C++ and Java -- do I have to know
anything *specific* about Kbabel design etc.?

-cheers



		
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