Hi again!
I am happy to report that the existing French and Finnish localizations
are very easy to merge with the brand new Chandler-en.po file. All
existing translations are preserved by my upgrade script and can be used
in future versions.
But there is still a small glitch: before upgrading it is necessary to
re-format a few messages which use newlines in unusual ways. The Swedish
version had 15 such messages (out of 1314). The Finnish and French files
were older and smaller and only had 4.
Regardless of language the same kind of strings causes errors.
Everything appears to work: an upgraded file is generated and the new
localization egg works. But our po_check script finds errors: some
msgstr messages are incomplete.
This really annoyed me, so I spent some time inside Wing yesterday. It
turns out the PO parser does the right thing in memory. Everything is
parsed correctly and ready to go. But the string representation of PO
messages can't handle newlines in strange places - so when the parsed PO
file is saved to disk some lines are missing.
I could fix this this by adding more complex parser logic for newlines.
Or we could pre-format the input files before upgrading. But that's
messy and feels like overkill. This is just my opinion - but I think the
problem here is that a small number of localizable strings need more
appropriate formatting.
This is some Chandler code that triggers my localization problem (from
feedback.py):
self.frame.text.AppendText(_(u'\nFeedback report ID: %(feedbackId)s') %
{'feedbackId': feedbackId})
The initial newline here is just GUI formatting. That is easy to find
and hopefully not very dificult to change.
Here is another one (from parcels.osaf.framework.certstore.dialogs.py):
message = _(u'There was an error with this SSL connection.\nThe error
was: %s.\nIgnoring this error may be dangerous!\nSHA1 fingerprint: %s')
% (errString, utils.fingerprint(x509))
The combination of %s and newlines breaks things later. This is much
harder to spot. But the basic problem is exactly the same: newlines are
used for GUI formatting inside a localizable string.
Anyway... I guess this should really wait until after preview. I'll take
a look at Bugzilla now. Good luck and happy bug hunting, everyone!
/ Jonas
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