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HACKING: Add section for tips on reducing translator workload.

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* HACKING (Be nice to translators): New section.
Add Jim's suggestion to avoid changing translatable strings if possible.
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Bo Borgerson
2008-06-16 18:30:25 -04:00
committed by Jim Meyering
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FIXME: dig up justification
Be nice to translators
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Don't change translatable strings if you can avoid it.
If you must rearrange individual lines (e.g., in multi-line --help
strings), extract and create new strings, rather than extracting
and moving into existing blocks. This avoids making unnecessary
work for translators.
Add tests
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Nearly every significant change must be accompanied by a test suite