[Pkg-isocodes-devel] Tagging "historical" entries in the PO files for ISO_3166 ( and others? )

[Tobias Toedter]

On Saturday 17 November 2007 09:53:45 Christian Perrier wrote:
> A discussion I had with a translator leads me to this idea:
>
> We currently put no information in the PO files for entries that are
> "historical" ones.
>
> As a consequence, some translators may incorrectly report us "errors"
> stating that 'foo' or 'bar' are no longer countries (we had this
> recently with Sikkim from a contributor of India).
>
> I suggest that we add a comment such as "Historic entry" in
> translator's comments for those entries.
>
> Anyone care to comment?

Yes, I do.

I think this is a very sensible suggestion, and we should try to implement 
this.

> I'm not sure that I'm able to implement this in the Python fiels, though.

I'll have a look at this, but it may take some time. I'm not sure it will be 
included in the next release.

Regards,
Tobias

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Tobias Toedter   | If anything can go wrong, it will.
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