Create translation from translation, not from source

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There are two files, a German template file (de.pot), generated from source, and an English translation in en.po.

  • de.pot
  • en.po

Now someone non-German wants to translate the application. But from the surface, it seems Poedit only allows creating translations from source (which is German). What's the workflow to create an en → fr translation, for example, for this setup?

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1 Answers

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Translating from translation (or worse, of a translation of a translation of a…) is a bad idea. It leads to serious accuracy and understandability issues.

If you don't have other options (using English for the source being the canonical one), you can use the poswap tool to do it.