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Re: Multi-language support on embedded plarforms

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Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> writes:
> On Wed, 6 Sep 2017 07:50:52 +1200, Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>>On 09/ 6/17 02:56 AM, Robert Wessel wrote:
[...]
>>> Paul mentioned the difficulty of keeping the different translations in
>>> sync; the preprocessor can help there too, if you put a version code
>>> (a timestamp, in our case) on each version of each message.  Then the
>>> preprocessor can warn if the English message was updated without the
>>> timestamp being updated (hopefully after being reviewed!) on the
>>> Italian message.
>>
>>If you store your spreadsheet in plain text (SCV), your version control 
>>system can keep track of changes for you!
>
>
> Well yes, (and ours are text based), but I've yet to see a SCM that
> can tell you that someone updated the English version of message#14,
> but hasn't validated or updated the Italian one yet.  You can
> certainly get a diff and manually see where changes have been made,
> but that still leaves you with a manual comparison to the
> translations, and no way of tracking that the validations have been
> done.

The "git blame" command tells you, for each line in a file, when that
line was most recently modified.  Other SCMs have similar tools.
I imagine you could build some tools on top of that that could
warn you, for example, that the English version of message #14 was
updated yesterday but the Italian version hasn't been changed in
the last year.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc.
"We must do something.  This is something.  Therefore, we must do this."
    -- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"

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Multi-language support on embedded plarforms pozz <pozzugno@gmail.com> - 2017-09-05 09:30 +0200
  Re: Multi-language support on embedded plarforms David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2017-09-05 10:43 +0200
    Re: Multi-language support on embedded plarforms Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2017-09-05 09:56 -0500
      Re: Multi-language support on embedded plarforms Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2017-09-06 07:50 +1200
        Re: Multi-language support on embedded plarforms Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2017-09-05 17:11 -0500
          Re: Multi-language support on embedded plarforms Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-09-05 15:17 -0700
            Re: Multi-language support on embedded plarforms Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2017-09-05 19:19 -0500
              Re: Multi-language support on embedded plarforms raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2017-09-09 12:37 +0000
                Re: Multi-language support on embedded plarforms Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2017-09-09 16:16 -0500
                Re: Multi-language support on embedded plarforms raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2017-09-15 17:17 +0000
          Re: Multi-language support on embedded plarforms Allan Herriman <allanherriman@hotmail.com> - 2017-09-06 11:27 +0000
  Re: Multi-language support on embedded plarforms Paul <paul@pcserviceselectronics.co.uk> - 2017-09-05 10:04 +0100
    Re: Multi-language support on embedded plarforms Theo Markettos <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2017-09-06 10:55 +0100
  Re: Multi-language support on embedded plarforms Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> - 2017-09-05 17:00 -0400
  Re: Multi-language support on embedded plarforms Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-09-07 10:55 -0700
    Re: Multi-language support on embedded plarforms scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-09-07 18:41 +0000
    Re: Multi-language support on embedded plarforms pozz <pozzugno@gmail.com> - 2017-09-08 11:33 +0200
      Re: Multi-language support on embedded plarforms bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-09-08 11:32 +0100
        Re: Multi-language support on embedded plarforms David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2017-09-08 13:37 +0200
          Re: Multi-language support on embedded plarforms bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-09-08 14:48 +0100
            Re: Multi-language support on embedded plarforms David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2017-09-08 16:45 +0200
  Re: Multi-language support on embedded plarforms Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2017-09-08 10:43 -0400
    Re: Multi-language support on embedded plarforms Mel Wilson <mwilson@the-wire.com> - 2017-09-08 17:33 +0000

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