Re: GNOME: Desktop Subtree Finished (Apparently)

[Arafat Medini <lumina at silverpen dot de>]

The script has some bugs in it so don't wonder (it's not my script ;)...
On the other hand it can be possible that the plural forms are still not
complete so that msgfmt still detects some fuzzy strings only cz the
format is not correct or a form is missing...

Arafat

Am Freitag, den 03.09.2004, 16:23 -0700 schrieb Abdulaziz Al-Arfaj:
> Salam,
> 
> We've finally managed to finish the Desktop subtree under GNOME. We have a
> problem:
> 
> Even though on my box all the files appear 100% complete, for the life of me I
> can't figure out exactly why some files appear incomplete here:
> 
> http://www.arabeyes.org/misc/gnome_status_bar.html
> 
> I am guessing, though I could not verify this, that it is because the script is
> detecting errors in some of the strings. When I check for faulty strings on my
> box from kbabel, I get "errors" too. I noticed that:
> 
> 1. All translated strings ending in question marks are detected as faulty. Why?
> I think its because msgfmt doesn't recognize the Arabic question mark as an
> equivalent of the latin Qmark. It tries to see if the English string and
> translated string both end in the same punctuation, and when it sees an Arabic
> Qmark it complains.
> 
> 2. For some reason, if a string contains a %d, then you MUST include it in the
> translation no matter what. This shouldnt be so in plural forms, especially in
> the mufrad and muthanna forms in Arabic, where we neither say 1 cat nor 2 cats
> but actually write qitta and qittatain, making the %d needless. Well msgfmt (or
> kbabel) thinks this is an error apparently.
> 
> I think this may be why the script shows the files as incomplete. This doesnt
> really matter, I'm just worried similiar scripts on the Gnome servers will
> think these files are incomplete too. Are these bugs in msgfmt or kbabel? I
> have no clue. Can someone look into this please?
> 
> We need to see if this is a problem, and if it is how to fix and if it isnt
> what are we doing wrong.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Abdulaziz,
> 
> 
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