Hi Anders, this is not a bug. It's by design. Upstream uses both real \n (LF) and quoted LF (\ + n) in its Grit strings.
As i said, i have to do a first conversion "Grit2GetText" to feed Launchpad, then i convert back what i get from Launchpad to Grit using another "GetText2Grit" function. I need a full bijection to minimize the diff in order to have acceptable (minimal) diffs for upstream. so i need to make sure that Grit2GetText(GetText2Grit(string)) == string If i simply drop the \n in the gettext pot/po files, i can't go back the original string. Is this a problem for you? /Fabien -----Original Message----- De: Anders Jenbo <[email protected]> Per a: [email protected] Assumpte: Re: [Launchpad-translators] Chromium translations in launchpad and errors Data: Sun, 12 Dec 2010 02:44:10 +0100 Hallo Fabien Good work on the importer. I noticed that is imports new lines as "\n" instead of an acctual new line, is this some thing you are planning to fix? https://translations.launchpad.net/chromium-browser/translations/+pots/chromium-strings/da/17/+translate -Anders Den 11-12-2010 00:53, Fabien Tassin skrev: > Hi, > > As you've already learned on David's blog, Chromium is now translatable > in Launchpad. Some of you discovered it weeks ago and already started to > contribute strings. I'm glad you did because it helped me find a lot of > corner cases when i created the machinery behind all this. > > if you want the details, please see David's blog: > http://davidplanella.wordpress.com/2010/12/09/chromium-opens-to-community-translations-in-launchpad/ > > You may have noticed that some of your contributions are already visible > in the Ubuntu builds of Chromium (official and PPA). > I'm glad to add that the first batch of strings landed upstream > yesterday and that other distros are willing to use them and maybe even > contribute. > > What i want to tell you about here is the error checking. > > In a nutshell, Chromium has its translations in a format called Grit > (some sort of XLST, an XML language), while Launchpad only handles > GetText, as i'm sure you already know. > Those formats are very different, meaning the back and forth conversion > was not that easy to achieve, and is very error prone. A simple error in > a gettext string can lead to bogus XML and then to a build failure (as > those files are parsed during build). I've implemented several sanity > tests in my converter, and the results are always visible there: > > http://people.ubuntu.com/~fta/chromium/translations/trunk/converter-output.html > > The reason that page exists is that it is not possible for me to inform > Launchpad/Rosetta that i consider a given translation bogus and that i > rejected it. You may think it's translated because LP tells you so, but > it's not used, and won't be until it's fixed. > > This page is updated daily, at the same time i feed the strings to > Launchpad. Launchpad also exports every day the strings you are > contributing, but both actions are not in sync, so it may take 1 or 2 > days for your strings to be processed by my converter, and errors to > appear in that page. (I've heard some of those errors are already fixed, > thank you! so tomorrow, they should disappear) > > I'd appreciate if you could have a look at that page from time to time. > To make your life easier, I've tried to provide details about what's > wrong with each string and also a link back to that string in Launchpad. > If it's unclear, please ask. > > /Fabien > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-translators > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-translators > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-translators Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-translators More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-translators Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-translators More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
