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diff --git a/doc/development/i18n_guide.md b/doc/development/i18n_guide.md index bfb0779fbfa..756535e28bc 100644 --- a/doc/development/i18n_guide.md +++ b/doc/development/i18n_guide.md @@ -127,6 +127,14 @@ New translations will be added with their default content and will be marked fuzzy. To use the translation, look for the `#, fuzzy` mention in `gitlab.edit.po` and remove it. +We need to make sure we remove the `fuzzy` translations before generating the +`locale/**/gitlab.po` file. When they aren't removed, the resulting `.po` will +be treated as a binary file which could overwrite translations that were merged +before the new translations. + +When we are just preparing a page to be translated, but not actually adding any +translations. There's no need to generate `.po` files. + Translations that aren't used in the source code anymore will be marked with `~#`; these can be removed to keep our translation files clutter-free. |