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@xxxxxxxxx>
---
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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1.7.2.3.313.gcd15
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