Stop creating huge translation units in applications

Sat Nov 4 12:50:07 GMT 2023

I think this is a problem for developers as well, it’s very inefficient to include HTML codes inside of the PO files. It would be much better if the HTML are generated at run-time. Developers must think about an intermediate languages that allows all the formattings, either in an intermediate language or in configurations or even from CSS files from translators. I have seen them in my PO file for Vietnamese as well and they are VERY CUMBERSOME to manage in translations, especially when comparing changes. However, diff in VSCODE can allow you to see micro differences though, still it’s very inefficient in my opinion.

Regards,
Hoang Tran
hoangduytran1960 at googlemail.com

> On 4 Nov 2023, at 12:10, Łukasz Wojniłowicz <lukasz.wojnilowicz at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Jasem,
> 
> please stop creating huge translation units as the one at the end of
> this message. It's difficult to translate or to spot a change that
> you'll make in them in the future.
> 
> Recently it popped up as fuzzy during my translation session, and I
> don't know what you've changed there. It could be a text or it could be
> html formatting or it could be just a missing space somewhere. In either
> case I need to read through all of its 5326 letters to find that out.
> That slows down translation considerably.
> 
> I suggest to break such huge units to several smaller ones, and don't
> overdo with including too much html formatting tags in them.
> 
> Cheers
> Łukasz
> 
> "<html><head/><body><p>Format is used to define the image file names by
> the use of placeholder tags.</p><ul style="margin-top: 0px;
> margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;
> -qt-list-indent: 1;"><li style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px;
> margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt- block-indent:0;
> text-indent:0px;">Placeholder<span style=" font-weight:704; ">
> %f</span> or <span style=" font-weight:704;">%filename</span>: The name
> of the .esq file, without extension.</li><li style=" margin-top:0px;
> margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;
> -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">Placeholder<span style="
> font-weight:704;"> %D</span> or <span style="
> font-weight:704;">%Datetime</span>: The current time and date <span
> style=" font-weight:704;">when the file is saved.</span></
> li><li style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
> li>margin-
> right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">Placeholder<span
> style=" font-weight:704;"> %T</span> or <span style="
> font-weight:704;">%Type</
> span>: The frame type eg: 'Light', 'Bias', 'Dark', 'Flat'...</li><li
> span>style=
> " margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;
> -qt- block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">Placeholder<span style="
> font-weight:704; "> %e</span> or <span style="
> font-weight:704;">%exposure</span>: The exposure duration in seconds,
> with '_secs' as suffix.</li><ul style="margin- top: 0px; margin-bottom:
> 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; -qt-list- indent: 1;"><li
> style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin- left:0px;
> margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;
> ">Placeholder<span style=" font-weight:704;"> %E</span> or <span
> style=" font-weight:704;">%exp</span>: The exposure duration in seconds
> as plain number, without any unit as suffix.</li></ul><li style="
> margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;
> -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">Placeholder<span style="
> font-weight:704;"> %F</span> or <span style="
> font-weight:704;">%Filter</span>: The active filter name. </li><li
> style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-
> right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">Placeholder<span
> style=" font-weight:704;"> %t</span> or <span style="
> font-weight:704;">%target</
> span>: The Target name.</li><li style=" margin-top:0px;
> span>margin-bottom:0px; 
> margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;
> ">Placeholder <span style=" font-weight:600;">%C</span> or <span
> style=" font-weight:600;">%temperature</span>: The camera temperature
> of capturing. </li><ul style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;
> margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; -qt-list-indent: 1;"><li style="
> margin-top:0px; margin- bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;
> -qt-block-indent:0; text- indent:0px;">Placeholder <span style="
> font-weight:600;">%B</span> or <span style="
> font-weight:600;">%bin</span>: The binning configured for
> capturing.</li><li style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-
> left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;
> ">Placeholder <span style=" font-weight:600;">%G</span> or <span
> style=" font-weight:600;">%gain</span>: The gain configured for
> capturing.</li></
> ul><li style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
> ul>margin-
> right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">Placeholder <span
> style=" font-weight:600;">%O</span> or <span style="
> font-weight:600;">%offset</
> span>: The offset configured for capturing.</li><ul style="margin-top:
> span>0px; 
> margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;
> -qt-list-indent: 1; "><li style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px;
> margin-left:0px; margin- right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0;
> text-indent:0px;">Placeholder <span style=" font-weight:600;">%I</span>
> or <span style=" font-weight:600;">%iso</
> span>: The ISO value (DSLRs only).</li></ul><li style=" margin-top:0px; 
> margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;
> -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">Placeholder <span style="
> font-weight:600;">%P</span> or <span style="
> font-weight:600;">%pierside</span>: The current mount's pier
> side.</li><li style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:12px; margin-
> left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;
> ">Placeholder<span style=" font-weight:704;"> %s*</span> or <span
> style= " font-weight:704;">%sequence</span>: The image sequence
> identifier where 
> * is the number of digits used (1-9). <span style="
> font-weight:704;">This tag is mandatory and must be the last element in
> the format.</span></li></
> ul><p>Arbitrary text may also be included within the Format string,
> ul><span 
> style=" font-weight:704;">except the % and \\ characters.</span> The / 
> path character can be used to define arbitrary
> directories.</p><p>Notes:</
> p><ul style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;
> p>margin-
> right: 0px; -qt-list-indent: 1;"><li style=" margin-top:0px; margin-
> bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-
> indent:0px;">Tags are case sensitive in both their short and long
> forms.</
> li><li style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
> li>margin-
> right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">Only use the %Datetime
> tag in the filename portion of the format, not in the path
> definition.</li></
> ul></body></html>"