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    language-specs: remove translatable strings from new *.lang files · 17affd74
    Sébastien Wilmet authored
    Keep only the _section translatable, those make sense to translate and
    they are already translated.
    
    The language names (Swift, Kotlin and Maxima) should not be translated,
    for example if Maxima is translated the user will certainly be confused…
    
    The style names are not very useful to translate, because the user never
    sees those strings! It is used for example by a gedit plugin to
    create/edit style schemes. The style names are probably hard to
    translate anyway, and I'm sure that it is often translated in a way that
    the user doesn't understand what it means… So, since those strings are
    extremely rarely used, and since they are hard to translate without
    context, it is better to not translate them at all. It's like GObject
    properties.
    
    The *.lang file format doesn't support well translatable strings.
    Ideally each translatable string should have its own tag, with the
    translatable="yes" property, the possibility to add a context, etc.
    
    The Kotlin, Maxima and Swift *.lang files will be backported on
    GtkSourceView 3.24, where we must not add new translatable strings. So
    this commit eases the process and will permit to cherry-pick new commits
    for those *.lang files without conflict.
    
    It is planned to remove translatable strings from all *.lang files in
    the future (except the _section), so this is just a first step for the
    new *.lang files that will be backported.
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