[Localization] Fwd: translation problem

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

Hi all,
There are some formatting issues with the following PO files as
detailed in the mail below. The languages affected include:
* Arabic
* Persian
* Urdu
Could you fix the issues and mail back the updated PO to me ASAP ?
Thanks,
Sayamindu



---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Erik Blankinship <erikb at mediamods.com>
Date: Jan 6, 2008 5:24 AM
Subject: translation problem
To: Sayamindu Dasgupta <sayamindu at gmail.com>
Cc: Bakhtiar Mikhak <mikhak at mediamods.com>


Attached are three translation files in Arabic, Farsi, and Pashtu (I
think).  There are a few syntax errors that need to be fixed in each
one, but I cannot get a text editor to behave in any expected way to
fix them myself.  I think you might have some familiarity with text
editors that might be able to handle these files?  I hope so.

 Let me enumerate what needs to be fixed.

 (1)
 In each file, there is are strings that says something like


msgid "%(1)s by %(2)s"

 and on the following line these need to be translated (keeping the
%(1)s and %(2)s as keys that will be replaced in runtime) .

 Some translators did not include the "s" at the end of these keys.
We need to make sure they are all there or the software will break.

 (2)
 In a few cases, more than one key is required for the translation,
but we accidentally used the same key twice.

msgid "%(1)s minutes, %(1)s seconds remaining"
should become...
msgid "%(1)s minutes, %(2)s seconds remaining"

msgid "%(1)s hours, %(2)s minutes, %(1)s seconds remaining"
should become...
msgid "%(1)s hours, %(2)s minutes, %(3)s seconds remaining"
 We need to make sure that the unique keys are changed in both the
original and the translated strings.

 Thank you for your help at this last minute.

 Erik



-- 
Sayamindu Dasgupta
[http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings]
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