Hi
My Java .properties file has this contents:
# This is a description of string1
string1=This is string one
# This is a description of string2
string2=this is another string
I'd like Passolo to keep the comments, as they might contain useful information for a translator.
As it stands the Java Add-on strips comments out - is there a trick to keep them? (without resorting to using another parser type)
This seems like a reasonable request.
Thanks
Mark
What do you mean by "keep the comments"? When creating a translated target file the comment lines are written to the translated file so I think they are kept / preserved.
On the other side the comment lines are not imported into the project for translators. The reason is just simple: Sun / Oracle never defined or documented that the comment above a key / value pair line in a Java properties file is associated with the text below. This is user defined syntax and a tacit assumption that is not always true and I have seen client files where the comment was below the key / value pair line.
In SDL Passolo, there are 3 possible solution approaches:
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