[PATCH 1/5] gettext docs: add a "Testing your changes" section to po/README

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 10, 2010, 19:35 UTC
Message-ID: <1284147353-18000-2-git-send-email-avarab@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikdHZFmXAdABvS9hPXtbXNJU5NdCOrw5_KP73bX@mail.gmail.com>

Change po/README to tell translators that they should do `make` at the top-level before submitting their translations. Many common errors will be caught with the `msgfmt --check` run that the Makefile will compile the message catalogs with.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
---
 po/README |   14 ++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/po/README b/po/README
index cca8012..4d23ca6 100644
--- a/po/README
+++ b/po/README
@@ -66,3 +66,17 @@ But then you need remember to remove the comments before you submit
 the file upstream:
 
     perl -pi -e 's/^#: .*\n//' XX.po
+
+
+Testing your changes
+--------------------
+
+Before you submit your changes go back to the top-level and do:
+
+    make
+
+On systems with GNU gettext (i.e. not Solaris) this will compile your
+changed PO file with `msgfmt --check`, the --check option flags many
+common errors, e.g. missing printf format strings, or translated
+messages that deviate from the originals in whether they begin/end
+with a newline or not.

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