Launchpad itself

Using two quotes instead of double quotes prevent translation of messages

Bug #495207 reported by Steve Dodier-Lazaro on 2009-12-10

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #438751: Disappearing message. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	JOSM	Fix Released	Unknown	josm-bugs #4160
	Launchpad itself	Incomplete	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Hello,

Launchpad refuses to accept translations containing brackets - { and }. This is somewhat problematic as it prevents some translations to be done - in JOSM, for instance: https://translations.launchpad.net/josm/trunk/+pots/josm/fr/+translate?batch=10&show=all&search=Warning%3A+object+%27%27{0}%27%27+is+already+deleted+on+the+server.+Skipping+this+object+and+retrying+to+upload.

Launchpad will refuse any translation containing brackets with the following error message:
Unexpected form data

Launchpad doesn't understand the form data submitted in this request.

This bug was reported by François Blondet in the lp-l10n-fr mailing list. Feel free to ask if any additional input is necessary.

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Adi Roiban (adiroiban) wrote on 2009-12-10:

Hi,

How are you trying to translate that string?

https://translations.edge.launchpad.net/josm/trunk/+pots/josm/ro/326/+translate

I just tried translating it into Romanian and everything was fine.

Here is the French link:
https://translations.edge.launchpad.net/josm/trunk/+pots/josm/fr/326/+translate

There are many other project using brackets in translations {0} and I am not aware of any problem
Cheers

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François Blondel (francoisblondel) wrote on 2009-12-11:

Hi,
I tried with the new link you gave, be I get :
"There is an error in the translation you provided. Please correct it before continuing."

If you want to try yourself, here is the translation I want to do :
Attention : l'objet "{0}" est déjà supprimé sur le serveur. Ignorez cet objet et retentez l'envoi.
I tried with "{0}", ''{0}'', „{0}”, but none worked.

Note that there is a problem to when using a po file and poedit.
Cheers

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Adi Roiban (adiroiban) wrote on 2009-12-13:

Launchpad translations and Poedit are using „msgfmt -c” for testing translations for errors.

The message is marked as java-format , and I don't know if using two quotes instead of double quotes is a valid java expression and msgfmt gets confused.

I think this bug can be solve in JOSM by using proper quotes and also in msgfmt by improving java-format parsing.

I have submitted the translations with "le objet" , feel free to delete it.

Cheers,

summary:	- Can't put brackets in a translation (Launchpad refuses the translation) + Using two quotes instead of double quotes prevent translation of + messages
Changed in josm:
importance:	Undecided → Unknown
status:	New → Unknown

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2009-12-13

Changed in josm:
status:	Unknown → New

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Данило Шеган (danilo) wrote on 2010-02-12:

We are using GNU gettext library for syntax checking translations. This sounds like an upstream bug. It'd be nice if someone can confirm if that's true.