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

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Korakurider <korakurider at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
>

Great. I filed a bug: http://bugs.locamotion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=960

Thanks,
Sayamindu


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



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Sayamindu Dasgupta
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