[drupal-devel] Help system redesign

Dries Buytaert dries.buytaert at gmail.com
Sun Sep 25 17:15:27 UTC 2005


> Seems like you really don't know how things are done now. We already
> store translation strings in the database, in fact original English
> strings are stored a multitude of times along with translations. And
> then we already have an import/export facility for PO files. Note that
> once we started to support PO files (instead of using a web  
> interface),
> the number of translations dramatically increased, very much  
> passing our
> expectations.

Agreed.

- The English version (original) should be shipped as a .mysql file.
- Translations should be using .PO files.

Remaining question:

- How do module developers and the documentation team write and  
revise the original English documentation?


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