Improved diff view of previous message in new version of Lokalize

Karl Ove Hufthammer karl at huftis.org
Thu Oct 10 21:38:20 BST 2024


As announced on https://kde.org/announcements/gear/24.08.2/, KDE Gear 
version 24.08.2 was released today. And with that, a new version of 
Lokalize.

There’s a great reason to update: Thanks to the excellent work of Finley 
Watson, the diff view comparing the ‘previous’ and current version of a 
source string can now properly handle changes in message context strings 
(msgctxt). This makes it easier to identify what has changed (or not 
changed) in the English string and apply the corresponding change in the 
translation.

I’ve attached a screenshot showing the diff view for a string where the 
only change is in the message context. In the previous version of 
Lokalize, the diff view was very confusing. With this update, the diff 
operation is performed separately on the msgctxt and the msgid strings, 
with the two shown on separate lines, making it much easier to see what 
has changed.


-- 
Karl Ove Hufthammer
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