Is there a reason this patch was not applied?
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On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 02:46:40PM +0100, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> > On 22 Oct 2021, at 13:12, PG Doc comments form <noreply@postgresql.org> wrote:
> >
> > The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
> >
> > Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/nls-translator.html
> > Description:
> >
> > In the documentation for translators
> > (https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/nls-translator.html) it is mentioned to
> > use any text editor for translating .po files. It can be very error prone
> > with regular text editors, especiially for non-tech people such as
> > translators.
>
> I think this makes sense, having done some translation work myself I agree that
> the PO editors out there can help quite a bit. Now, I'm sure anyone interested
> is perfectly capable of Googling, but since this chapter is there to help
> potential or new contributors I think it's fine to lower the bar and be a bit
> more verbose.
>
> I don't feel like linking to any specific tool though, so I just added a small
> sentence to indicate that options exist, and that we don't necessarily require
> anyone to use a text editor.
>
> CC:ing developers who have spent time with translations for input.
>
> --
> Daniel Gustafsson https://vmware.com/
>
> diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/nls.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/nls.sgml
> index d49f44f3f2..0b3c638594 100644
> --- a/doc/src/sgml/nls.sgml
> +++ b/doc/src/sgml/nls.sgml
> @@ -202,7 +202,9 @@ make update-po
> <title>Editing the PO Files</title>
>
> <para>
> - The PO files can be edited with a regular text editor. The
> + The PO files can be edited with a regular text editor. There are also
> + several specialized editors for PO files which can help the process with
> + translation specific features. The
> translator should only change the area between the quotes after
> the msgstr directive, add comments, and alter the fuzzy flag.
> There is (unsurprisingly) a PO mode for Emacs, which I find quite
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