Jeroen van der Wal created ISIS-1070:
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Summary: Add header and handle double quotes in translations.pot
file
Key: ISIS-1070
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ISIS-1070
Project: Isis
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Core
Affects Versions: core-1.8.0
Reporter: Jeroen van der Wal
Assignee: Dan Haywood
Priority: Minor
Fix For: core-1.9.0
Some translation services are more picky about the format of the .pot file than
others. I countered two issues when trying a different service:
1. Add compliant header
More about headers in this paper [1] and the gettext documentation [2]. I've
successfully managed to upload a .pot file to a translation service by adding
this header:
{code}
msgid ""
msgstr ""
"Project-Id-Version: \n"
"POT-Creation-Date: 2015-03-04 12:52+0100\n"
"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
"Plural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=n != 1;\n"
{code}
2. Escape quotes
Some services can't deal with quotes in the translatable string:
{code}
msgid "<a href="#">Accept using your data for research</a>"
{code}
One could argue that is this particular example the html should not be exposed
to the translator but it's imaginable that quotes are uses in string that are
presented to the user.
Escaping with a backslash allowed me to upload the .pot file:
{code}
msgid "<a href=\"#\">Accept using your data for research</a>"
{code}
[1] http://pology.nedohodnik.net/doc/user/en_US/ch-poformat.html
[2]
https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Header-Entry.html#Header-Entry
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