Languages

I have just realized that this new "orphans" feature allows quite a new thing. A friend of mine sent me some of his old 1.6 translated string files (*.php). How to merge them into the current pack? So easy!

1. I updated my language pack from CVS
2. I made a backup of current version of the sent string files into the /tmp/backup
   
3. I copied sent files and overwrote the current ones
4. I copied the the current files back from /tmp/backup into the language pack directory - BUT I did not overwrite them. I chose append when asked by file manager. Thus those sent files looked like:
   
   <?PHP // $Id created with old 1.6 month ago$
   $string['blahblah'] = 'My friend's version';
   $string['wasmissing'] = 'This was missing in the HEAD';
   $string['only16string'] = 'This is not in HEAD 1.8 any more';
   ?>
   <?PHP // $Id created with HEAD 1.8 week ago$
   $string['blahblah'] = 'My own version';
   ?>
   
   
5. When re-saved in lang.php, the file gets merged as wanted (because the $string is an array, the later defined strings win):
   
   <?PHP // $Id created with HEAD 1.8 today$
   $string['blahblah'] = 'My own version';
   $string['wasmissing'] = 'This was missing in the HEAD';
   $string['only16string'] = 'This is not in HEAD 1.8 any more'; // ORPHANED
   ?>
   

Thus me as a language pack coordinator can easily merge translated pieces of strings sent by volunteers - even these pieces were translated using older version. No strings should get lost