Re: Some translation related bugs and suggestions

Hans Öfverbeck wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> While working with the Swedish translation and discussing it at
> [email protected] some bugs have been found:
> 
> 1. Non-ascii characters are incorrectly displayed in output to terminal,
> as is produced for instance by "gqview --help".
> Output to the gui is correct.
> I get these errors both if I compile gqview from sources and if I use
> the debian unstable build (1.3.7-1). I am running
> debian with glibc 2.3.2.ds1-10, LANG is set to sv_SE.
> 
> If I change
> line 485 in main.c from:
> bind_textdomain_codeset (PACKAGE, "UTF-8");
> to:
> bind_textdomain_codeset (PACKAGE, "iso-8859-1");
> then output to terminal is Ok, but output to the gui doesn't work.

Fixed, the --help text is now converted to the locale encoding of the terminal,
as set by the LANG environment variable. (it was previously assuming all
terminals were UTF-8...)

> 2. Shouldn't this be "fluorescent" ?
> #: src/exif.c:162
> msgid "flourescent"
> msgstr ""

Fixed.

> 3. Isn't there a space missing from "%sto:\n" ("%s to:\n") in the
> messages below ?
> #: src/utilops.c:591
> #, c-format
> msgid ""
> "Unable to copy file:\n"
> "%sto:\n"
> "%s\n"
> " during multiple file copy."
> msgstr ""
> 
> #: src/utilops.c:596
> #, c-format
> msgid ""
> "Unable to move file:\n"
> "%sto:\n"
> "%s\n"
> " during multiple file move."
> msgstr ""

A newline was missing (I also removed a space), they are now:

msgid ""
"Unable to copy file:\n"
"%s\n"
"to:\n"
"%s\n"
"during multiple file copy."
msgstr ""

The move version has similar changes.

> 4. Why not just "Show filename" ?
> #: src/collect-table.c:809 src/view_file_icon.c:309
> msgid "Show filename _text"
> msgstr ""

I wanted there to be no confusion as to what this menu item changes.

> 5. Shouldn't the ending of this message be: "not a file."
> #: src/utilops.c:850
> msgid ""
> "When operating with multiple files, please select\n"
> " a directory, not file."

Fixed, I also removed the extra space preceding the second line:

"When operating with multiple files, please select\n"
"a directory, not a file."

> 
> Finally some suggestions from Christian Rose:
> Use intltool, so the .desktop-file doesn't need to be translated
> separately, more good
> reasons to do this can be found at:
> 
> http://developer.gnome.org/doc/tutorials/gnome-i18n/developer.html#use-intltool
> 
> and at
> 
> http://www.gnome.org/~malcolm/i18n/
> 
> there is a guide on how to add support for intltool to an existing program.
> 
> Use "Translation Project" for the translations, info at:
> 
> http://developer.gnome.org/doc/tutorials/gnome-i18n/developer.html#tp

Will look into this, thanks.


Greetings,
John

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