Andrea Turrini writes: Thanks for spotting!

I checked on Italian (fully translated before the update of the YaST POT files), but a change in the POT file affects all languages...

Note that the updated strings are not yet in the PO files repository; I updated my *.it.po files from the POT manually.

Last week I merged half of our languages (from A to Italian). Now I'm wondering whether I should revert everything? -- Karl Eichwalder SUSE LINUX Products GmbH R&D / Documentation Maxfeldstraße 5 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-translation+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-translation+owner@opensuse.org

"Efstathios Iosifidis (aka diamond_gr)" writes:

Guys, I already started translating using gtranslator. The original English text had only \n, so I used it. Now POT files changed everything and I lost everything. I must translate them again. What should I do? Can I get some files from 12.3 branch and send the translations?

In the meantime I reverted all languages where no translation work was done since the broken .pot file update. And I also reverted the .pot files. I wanted, I can also revert your translations (el). If you you want to keep "new" translation, just save them in a compendium file: cd .../el msgcat --use-first -o compendium.el.po po/*.el.po

From the compendium file, you can reuse these translations easily later on:

msgmerge -C compendium.el.po -U po/$FILE.el.po ../50-pot/$FILE.pot To revert the faulty merge, I used this command (where $l is the language code, e.g., 'el'): cd $l/po svn merge -rHEAD:80160 . svn ci -m'reverting to pre-ruby state' . I hope I got it right... -- Karl Eichwalder SUSE LINUX Products GmbH R&D / Documentation Maxfeldstraße 5 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-translation+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-translation+owner@opensuse.org

On 08/05/2013 05:48 PM, Efstathios Iosifidis (aka diamond_gr) wrote:

Στις 05/08/2013 12:39 μμ, ο/η Karl Eichwalder έγραψε:

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Andrea Turrini writes:

Thanks for spotting!

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I checked on Italian (fully translated before the update of the YaST POT files), but a change in the POT file affects all languages...

Note that the updated strings are not yet in the PO files repository; I updated my *.it.po files from the POT manually. Last week I merged half of our languages (from A to Italian). Now I'm wondering whether I should revert everything?

Guys, I already started translating using gtranslator. The original English text had only \n, so I used it. Now POT files changed everything and I lost everything. I must translate them again.

Not really, since we are using svn.

What should I do?

As first thing, stop translating until we have a green light from yast devs. Then, you can recover original translations as follows: inside your yast directory containing the po files, do a "svn log -v | less" and find the last revision before the merging. In my case r80771 since the following commit is the one from Karl (r82728). Then you checkout again the repository at that specific revision: "svn co https://svn.opensuse.org/svn/opensuse-i18n/trunk/yast/el -r N" where you replace N by the revision found before. Now you have a copy of your files before the massive change. Using these files, you can replace the new ones or copy the translations. But I think it is better if you ask Karl for the best solution to avoid other problems in case he decides to revert the changes. Best, Andrea

Can I get some files from 12.3 branch and send the translations? I'm kind of lost. Thanks Stathis

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Στις 05/08/2013 09:06 μμ, ο/η Carlos E. R. έγραψε:

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On Monday, 2013-08-05 at 18:48 +0300, Efstathios Iosifidis (aka diamond_gr) wrote:

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Guys, I already started translating using gtranslator. The original English text had only \n, so I used it. Now POT files changed everything and I lost everything. I must translate them again. What should I do? Can I get some files from 12.3 branch and send the translations? I'm kind of lost.

IMO, it is too early to start translating, specially YAST. Generally, you can start anytime, but any translation done before the freeze, can suffer blows like that.

Beta 1 is scheduled for Sept 15th...

I'm not familiar with gtranslator. Kbabel, for instance, memorizes all your translated strings, and can use those for the automated translation functionality. Of course, those strings are set fuzzy and you have to review them, but it is better than working from scratch. Carlos, gtranslator has also similar thing you described. Our translations were 99% and after this change went to 90%. So as I mentioned, I'll be waiting your news to start translate. Thanks

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2013/8/2 Carlos E. R. :

What I know is that the translation tools will not detect the double slash, and will not flag as an error if a single slash is used. What will happen if we (translators) fail to use them?

If I remember correctly, \\ is the escape sequence to have the character '\' in the resulting string, as \n is the escape sequence for the new line. So, having \\n in the original string should correspond to have the two characters '\n' in the resulting string. So, if we keep \n instead of \\n in the translation, than the tool should complain for the different number of new lines; if we use \\n, probably the user will see the characters '\n' in the string instead of the new line.

Can our tools be modified so that those errors be flagged?

No idea, also because '\\' has a meaning, it is not an error.

Why has that double slash got to be used? :-?

It seems to be a problem with the string extraction tool (from a mail sent to yast-devel only): On 08/02/2013 08:36 AM, Ladislav Slezak wrote:

Dne 1.8.2013 18:59, Andrea Turrini napsal(a):

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As a result, the msgid strings now contain "\\n" instead of "\n" to denote the new line inside the same msgid.

For instance, in printer.pot, the current string is

msgid "Started the CUPS daemon.\\nWaiting half a minute for the CUPS daemon to get ready to operate...\\n"

Yeah, I haven't noticed that, thanks for reporting this!

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Now, the question is: is this change expected and wanted?

This was caused by switching from YCP to Ruby which needs using Ruby gettext (rxgettext) instead of GNU gettext (xgettext).

For me it looks like a bug, I'll investigate further.

Moreover many comments are missing, this is another incompatibility in rxgettext and needs to be solved.

For now ignore the new translations, and I think the last changes could be even reverted to not cause confusions for translators...

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V Fri, 02 Aug 2013 08:37:09 +0200 David Majda napsáno:

Dne 1.8.2013 18:59, Andrea Turrini napsal(a):

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I have just noted that the POT files for YaST have been updated, probably as the result of the conversion of YaST in Ruby.

As a result, the msgid strings now contain "\\n" instead of "\n" to denote the new line inside the same msgid.

For instance, in printer.pot, the current string is

msgid "Started the CUPS daemon.\\nWaiting half a minute for the CUPS daemon to get ready to operate...\\n"

while before it was

msgid "" "Started the CUPS daemon.\n" "Waiting half a minute for the CUPS daemon to get ready to operate...\n"

Now, the question is: is this change expected and wanted?

On the first sight it looks like a bug of a string extraction tool for Ruby (rxgettext). Ladislav (in CC) is looking at the problem now more deeply.

We'll send an update once we know more.

So, now I've sent new pot files to your svn repository: the issue with newlines should be fixed (thanks to Ladislav). There still might be some minor issue that some comments are missing (in some corner cases). This will be fixed once we found the reason for such behavior. Jiri -- Jiri Suchomel SUSE LINUX, s.r.o. Lihovarská 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 960 190 00 Praha 9, Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-translation+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-translation+owner@opensuse.org

Dne 6.8.2013 13:05, Karl Eichwalder napsal(a):

1/ ",ycp-format" flags are missing. This means we no longer are able to validate proper usage of format specifiers.

Ouch, this is quite tricky. We switched from YCP to Ruby so the "ycp-format" is actually not true anymore. Although we wrap the translation code so the YCP %<num> format specifiers work in Ruby code, we cannot know if that wrapper is used during POT build. It can be manually removed and replaced by pure Ruby format. (Well, maybe we could, but the parser would be too complicated and I don't think we would catch all possible use cases...) I don't want to blindly add "ycp-format" marks everywhere although it would work right now as nobody probably has touched any translation text yet. But later there will be such changes for sure and then we won't know which format is correct. I don't see any solution to this problem, I think we have just to live without the additional validation... :-(

2/ The extractor does not seem to collapse duplicates into one entry. Thus nfs_server.pot is invalid:

msgfmt --check 50-pot/nfs_server.pot 50-pot/nfs_server.pot:122: duplicate message definition... 50-pot/nfs_server.pot:119: ...this is the location of the first definition

Strange, there is some code for merging the duplicates and works quite well, it merged all duplicates correctly in my test cases. I'll check creating this specific POT file... Thanks for the feedback! Ladislav -- Ladislav Slezák Appliance department / YaST Developer Lihovarská 1060/12 190 00 Prague 9 / Czech Republic tel: +420 284 028 960 lslezak@suse.com SUSE -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-translation+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-translation+owner@opensuse.org