[Pkg-isocodes-devel] Issues with "iso_3166_2" en.po etc

[Tobias Quathamer]

Am 29.07.2014 um 10:53 schrieb Daniel Durrant:
> Hi
> 
> I am trying to understand the content of your files here - everything is
> fine apart from the 'MSGSTR' entries - what exactly are they?
> They very often seem to bear no relevance to the MSGID entry and country
> at hand.
> 
> For example:
> 
> #. name for MK-56
> #, fuzzy
> msgid "Novo Selo"
> msgstr "Nuevo Leon"
> 
> "Novo Selo" is in Macedonia (MK) (as well as several other places).
> However, "Nuevo Leon" has absolutely nothing to do with Macedonia or any
> other place that also has "Novo Selo".
> "Nuevo Leon" is in Mexico, 1000's of miles from Macedonia and other places.
> 
> This is just one example - there are many (in fact all that I have
> looked at) where this MSGSTR seems wrong - it may be that I just don't
> understand what it is for.
> 
> Could you help me understand what it is please?
> 
> Many thanks and kind regards
> 
> Daniel

Hi Daniel,

you're right, those "translations" have nothing to do with the msgid.
They are automatically inserted by the gettext tools, which is why they
are marked with "#, fuzzy" just above the msgid. Those strings are
intended to be a help for the translator, although I have to admit that
this feature of gettext is of little use for iso-codes, because the
strings are so short that the automatic matching usually yields no
sensible results.

Please note however, that those "fuzzy" strings are never used in the
final translations available in the installed version of iso-codes, they
just appear in the .po files and the git repository.

Hope this helps, regards,
Tobias


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