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Re: [Fvwm-crystal-users] fvwm translation bug
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From: Alwin <tra...@zi...> - 2019-11-23 15:21:08
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Dominique Michel schreef: > 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. Yes, that was the only one. > 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? The quoting problem should be temporary, if it could be fixed in fvwm as a bug. Small change for the same hints in make.pot 'Help', and a slash in the relative path. There's actually a setting in Poedit to add a prefix, so the files can be viewed directly. --- make.pot.old 2019-11-23 13:12:58.752340653 +0100 +++ make.pot 2019-11-23 15:58:25.936137186 +0100 @@ -40,6 +40,10 @@ # to search for empty msgstr's, check translations marked by the `fuzzy' # flag, remove the lines containing `fuzzy', and (optionally) remove # marked obsolete entries at the end of the PO files. +# +# Using quoting characters into a translation can confuse fvwm. +# To avoid this, you MUST use other UTF-8 characters like , ‘ ’ “ ” « or ». +# The most used one can be the apostrophe: please use ’ instead of '. @@ -222,11 +226,11 @@ # put non conventional strings here: if [ "$i" = "fvwm-crystal" ]; then - echo '#: ..fvwm/scripts/XDG-Menu' >>$i.pot + echo '#: ../fvwm/scripts/XDG-Menu' >>$i.pot echo 'msgid "Configure"' >>$i.pot echo 'msgstr ""' >>$i.pot echo '' >>$i.pot - echo '#: ..fvwm/scripts/XDG-Menu' >>$i.pot + echo '#: ../fvwm/scripts/XDG-Menu' >>$i.pot echo 'msgid "Regenerate"' >>$i.pot echo 'msgstr ""' >>$i.pot fi > > 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. Then that's probably temporary too. ;-) > > 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 -- [alwin] |
