Re: [Fvwm-crystal-users] fvwm translation bug

[Dominique M. <dom...@gm...>]

Le Sun, 17 Nov 2019 12:13:17 +0100,
Alwin <tra...@zi...> a écrit :

> Hi Dominique,

Hi Alwin,
> 
> I think you're right, and counting how much escape characters would
> be needed in every single translation string is too much of a burden.
> 
> It seems that FVWM does the gettext conversion before execution of
> the scripting task. Using the Unicode apostrophe U+2019
> unbackslashed, works under a UTF-8 locale, and it's looking nice. But
> under another character set (8859-1 family) it's replaced again by
> the ASCII apostrophe which is also used by the script, so it ruins
> the menu. Maybe FVWM-Crystal should declare using translations not
> using UTF-8 broken for the time being, and use the Unicode apostrophe
> for now.

Thanks. I changed them to U+2019 into the French translation. And
changed a "don\\'t" into fvwm/scripts/FileEditors/ShowDirectories-Help
order to use it too. Hopefully, it was the only needed change into the
original English.

I added a comment about that into your addons/make.pot script.
It will be into the pot files, but not necessarily merged into
existing po files.
Also, I added a section for 2 strings which are into the XDG
application menu generated by fvwm-menu-desktop (Alt+A menu).
Will you review these changes?

It is also a sed with these strings into fvwm/scripts/XDG-Menu. That is
to edit the XDG generated menu in order to adapt it to our need. The 2
strings are just reversed, I think the main issue with these 2 strings
is than fvwm doesn't provide a translation for them.

Cheers,
Dominique
> 
> The real solution would probably be, that FVWM doesn't take the 'gt.' 
> string for gettext into account for the scripting part.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> Dominique Michel schreef:
> > I found a bug when making the French translation. If your language
> > contain the apostrophe "'", to have it into a menu translated
> > string, will screw up the corresponding menu entry and associated
> > function. That imply not only the displayed string can and will be
> > wrong, but that menu entry will not work at all. To escape the "'"
> > into the translation doesn't help, or help randomly in a few cases.
> >
> > The same string into a FvwmForm will work fine. I reported this to
> > the Fvwm workers list, but get no answer at that time. The only
> > workaround I find is to not use "'" into translated menu strings,
> > and when not possible, to replace "'" by something like "_" or " ".
> > I think it will be the same issue with other characters used by
> > fvwm as quoting characters, and I rally hope they will be the only
> > ones causing that issue.
> >
> > Thanks for your time.
> > Dominique  
> 
> 


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