Re: improvement feature for msgmerge

[Bruno Haible]

Pablo Saratxaga wrote on 2004-09-23:
> msgmerge ability to look at various files (with -C file) is very
> useful to help translators fill a new or modified po file.
> 
> however, when doing "msgmerge -C big.po old.po template.pot > new.po"
> if "old.po" has some fuzzy entries, they will be kept, even if
> translated versions exist in big.po
> 
> it would be nice to have an --overwrite-fuzzy parameter so that
> if there is a translated entry in one of the -C files, it will
> overwrite a fuzzy entry in old.po, eg:
> 
> msgmerge --overwrite-fuzzy -C big.po old.po template.pot > new.po

Thanks for the suggestion.

I think there are two cases:

   - fuzzy entry in old.po and non-fuzzy entry in big.po.
     In this case, I think it should even be the default behaviour
     to use the non-fuzzy entry from big.po. Rationale: If the
     entry in old.po was absent, the non-fuzzy entry from big.po
     would be used as well, and since it is non-fuzzy, it means
     the translator trusts it and doesn't need to review it.

   - fuzzy entry in old.po and fuzzy entry in big.po.
     For this case, I think a command-line option is needed.
     Maybe the same technique as in msgcat can be used: concatenate
     all possible msgstrs and mark the result as fuzzy.

What do you think?

Bruno