uploading language po file causes extra lines to be appended

I think I found a cause for the "#~" comments (in local files). Note that this is only an explaination of what might cause them to be inserted into files by gettext tools, not a reason they are showing up on Rosetta.

One cause seems to be if msgid strings are removed. In my local files I have just removed one translated string. When I ran the gettext tools to update the .po files, I find that the removed string (along with the translation) is now commented out at the bottom of the file, eg:

#~ msgid "MAC comparison failure in block %lli"
#~ msgstr "Échec de comparaison MAC dans le bloc %lli"

However, this does not explain yet why they are appearing in Rosetta, when no translatable have been neither added nor removed..

Hi, after a funny debug session I found the problem.

When we do the export, our code was removing the white space from the end of the multiline msgid:

Original:

msgid ""
"Please select a key size in bits. The cipher you have chosen\n"
"supports sizes from %i to %i bits in increments of %i bits.\n"
"For example: "

Our version:

msgid ""
"Please select a key size in bits. The cipher you have chosen\n"
"supports sizes from %i to %i bits in increments of %i bits.\n"
"For example:"

If you look at the last line, the "For example:" is missing a white space at the end. That caused that the process that does the merge with the template thought that it was a different msgid that does not exists inside the template and thus it marked it that way, as obsolete.

The fix will reach Rosetta server soon.

Thank you for the report and for the help to find the bug.

Cheers.

The server has this patch applied already.

Please, reopen if it still gives you a bad output...

Cheers.