[Maposmatic-dev] Translating large text blocks and transifex

[Hakan Tandogan]

Hi all,


As we all are aware, gettext and its implementations in python use the 
source string (english) as a key for the translated string (msgid).

One little downside I observed with transifex is that it removes all 
translations for which there are no source text (anymore). Meaning, if 
we have a large block of text in maposmatic/about.html or 
maposmatic/donate.html, even little changes in the source cause the 
translation at transifex to vanish. This in turn feels for the 
translators like we lost their hard work on translating the huge paragraphs.

One solution that comes to mind would be to split those big blocks into 
sentence-sized translation units. At the same time, we could move 
hard-codable strings like git URLs to some other configuration location, 
like it is done with the {{about_url}} in donate.html, line 43.

Is this acceptable for you?


Regards,
Hakan