[Localization] etoys.pot format incompatible against the latest Pootle?

[Korakurider]

On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta
<sayamindu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello
> I think I have found what is wrong. I'll try to talk with the Pootle
> developers/file a bug and push in the fix in our server instance
> within tomorrow.
   Thanks for response.

> Just to confirm, this only occurs with messages in the form of
>
> msgid "FOOBAR\\"
>
> Right ?
    I think yes.  The two records in my example were the only
incidents I saw in etoys.po.


>
> Thanks for finding this bug,
> Cheers,
> Sayamindu
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 10:59 PM, Korakurider <korakurider at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello.
>> I noticed recently format errors came into etoys.po on pootle.
>>
>> (1) Original Japanese PO have been like this for long.  (no error)
>> ----- from here ----
>> #: Morphic-Worlds,PasteUpMorph>>checkCurrentHandForObjectToPaste
>> msgid "Hand is holding a Morph in its paste buffer:\\"
>> msgstr ""
>>
>> #: System-Support,Project>>decideAboutCreatingBlank:
>> msgid "I cannot locate the project\\"
>> msgstr ""
>> ----- to here
>>
>> (2) when I noticed the errors:
>> ----- from here ----
>> #: Morphic-Worlds,PasteUpMorph>>checkCurrentHandForObjectToPaste
>> msgid "Hand is holding a Morph in its paste buffer:\\"
>> "
>> msgstr ""
>>
>> #: System-Support,Project>>decideAboutCreatingBlank:
>> msgid "I cannot locate the project\\"
>> "
>> msgstr ""
>> ----- to here
>>
>> (3) Things went worse when I submit translations from pootle screen:
>> ----- from here ----
>> #: Morphic-Worlds,PasteUpMorph>>checkCurrentHandForObjectToPaste
>> msgid "Hand is holding a Morph in its paste buffer:\\"
>> "
>> "
>> "
>> msgstr ""
>>
>> #: System-Support,Project>>decideAboutCreatingBlank:
>> msgid "I cannot locate the project\\"
>> "
>> "
>> "
>> msgstr ""
>> ----- to here
>>
>> (4) I manually edited the PO as (1) and uploaded to Pootle.  No error.
>>   (and I noticed people did this fix for some language)
>>
>> (5) Submitting translation from pootle screen broke POT again as (2)...
>>
>>
>> I am wondering that formatting of quotation/escape in etoys.pot is wrong
>> or the latest version of pootle doesn't like.
>> Does anyone see root cause of this?
>>
>>
>> thanks in advance.
>> /Korakurider
>>
>
>
>
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> Sayamindu Dasgupta
> [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings]
>