Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] [Tuxpaint-i18n] Fwd: Re: Some strings not translating

[Mark K. K. <mkk...@gm...>]

(Cross-posting since the original message was cross-posted.)

I see some msgid's have non-ASCII characters.  Could that be it?

Try different strings and see if there's a pattern (the texts between
lines XX to YY work but not from YY to ZZ.)

-Mark I-would-do-it-if-I-had-the-time-but-I'm-apt-hunting Kim

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 12:55:48PM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> 
> Shin-Ichi sent this to me, since he's having difficulty posting to the
> lists again. :^(
> 
> I'm using Ubuntu 8.04 which has gettext 0.17.  Could there be an issue with
> this with regards to generating MO files?
> 
> I've tested with the command-line 'gettext' command and seem to be getting
> the same results...
> 
>   $ LANGUAGE=zh_TW gettext -d tuxpaint Black\!
> 
> returns some binary-looking stuff that's probably the UTF-8 for the
> Traditional Chinese translation of "Black!"
> 
> However,
> 
>   $ LANGUAGE=zh_TW gettext -d tuxpaint "Yes, I'm done"\!
> 
> returns:
> 
>   Yes, I'm done!
> 
> 
> Is there any way I can debug this further?  :^/
> 
> -bill!
> 
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from sh...@wm... -----
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I remember that I met the very similar problem a long time ago...
> 
> In that case, ONLY the the string "If you quit, you'll lose your picture! Save 
> it?" wasn't translated to Japanese, ONLY ON Fedora Core 1.
> 
> The strange thing was, package which compiled on Fedora Core 2 had no problem 
> even on Fedora Core 1. I thought that there might be some cases when gettext 
> doesn't make correct .mo files from .po files.
> 
> Just for your information.
> 
> -- 
> shin1
> 
> On Sun Jun 22 02:20:48 JST 2008
> Bill Kendrick <nb...@so...> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hey there.  I was just checking out Tux Paint in the zh_TW locale
> > (Chinese Traditional) and noticed that, although the zh_tw.po file appears
> > to be 100% complete, some strings are not translating.
> > 
> > For example, the Yes/No button labels that appear in the "Quit?" prompt.
> > I confirmed that there were, in fact, "msgstr" and that the "msgid" for
> > the strings matched what's in tuxpaint.pot.  So... I'm confused. :^/
> > 
> > Does anyone know what might be up?
> > 
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