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On Jun 28, 2011 @ 02:57 pm, [email protected] wrote: 2011/6/27 Rémi Verschelde <[email protected]>: > 2011/6/25 atilla ontas <[email protected]>: >> >> Ping! Pong! Any further news? We have hungry new translators but we >> have to hold tx translations until this issue is fixed... >> > > Okay, I finally found the time to have a look at it. I tried to upload > the drakx-kbd-mouse-x11.po file, and I had the same error as you, > namely that I should run msgfmt -c on the file. msgfmt -c did not > print anything, as it was the case for you. So I had a look at the po > file directly and I noticed that some translated strings did not > respect the original layout. > > I mean, one of the strings in English is: > "The two critical parameters are the vertical refresh rate, which is the > rate\n > at which the whole screen is refreshed, and most importantly the horizontal\n > sync rate, which is the rate at which scanlines are displayed.\n > \n > It is VERY IMPORTANT that you do not specify a monitor type with a sync > range\n > that is beyond the capabilities of your monitor: you may damage your > monitor.\n > If in doubt, choose a conservative setting." > > There are seven "\n" which mean "print a new line". > On the Turkish version, we had: > > "Burada ki iki önemli parametre dikey ve yatay tazeleme hızlarıdır.\n > Seçiminizi yaparken monitörünüzün kapasitesinin üstünde bir seçim\n > yapmamanız oldukça önemlidir, aksi takdirde monitör zarar görebilir.\n > Seçerken bir ikileme düşerseniz, düşük çözünürlükte bir ayar seçin." > > Since there are only four "\n", I suppose that was the error. I added > three random "\n" your text, > and I could upload the file to Tx. You may do the same for the other > files, and modify the translation that I corrected > (for I do not know Turkish, so my new lines probably mean nothing). > > Regards, > Rémi / Akien > Thanks for deep analysis. It is strange that msgfmt won't catch and show missing \n characters. I think we have crashed on a gettext bug but i don't know how do report this. Anyways, I' ll look at again other po files deeply this time. Thanks again. ------ This is an automated response. Your issue has been noted. We'll be in touch soon. Please reply to this email or visit the URL below with any additional details. http://DEVPC2:9000/portal/view-help-request/39
