[Po4a-devel] a small question about translation

[D. Barbier]

On 2013/6/10 hottea wrote:
> hi,
> I'm trying to translation po4a to Simplified Chinese, and there is a small
> question when I do the work. I could not get the meaning of this sentence:
>
> The po4a (PO for anything) project goal is to ease translations (and more
> interestingly, the maintenance of translations) using gettext tools on areas
> where they were not expected like documentation.
>
> What does "where they were not expected like documentation" ? Does it mean
> gettext tools are not good at documentation translation? I don't usually
> meet this, so I'm so familiar with it.

Hello,

Yes, this is exactly what we had in mind: gettext has been designed to
internationalize programs, and does it very well, but it does not
support natively documentation formats.

Denis