Re: [translations] po file: reporting bugs

[Jean-Charles Malahieude <lilyfan@xxxxxxxxx>]

Le 13/12/2010 01:30, Francisco Vila disait :
> 2010/12/12 Jean-Charles Malahieude<lilyfan@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > Le 11/12/2010 16:01, Jean-Charles Malahieude disait :
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I hope you have noticed this msgid
> >
> > I just notice that it is in the program's po file (dealt by the FTP).
> >
> > > Please label your translation according to what you have in the footer
> > > of the docs (see Documentation/LANG.po)
> > >
> > > So it becomes for French:
> > > msgstr ""
> > > "Signalez tout bogue, en français à\n"
> > > "http://lilypond-french-users.1298960.n2.nabble.com/\n";
> > > "ou en anglais à\n"
> > > "%s"
> > >
> > > and should be in Spanish:
> > > msgstr ""
> > > "Informe de los fallos en español a\n"
> > > "http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-es";
> > > "o en inglés \n"
> > > "%s"
> >   without any space between " and http
>
> The robot accepted my PO but I obtained the following warning, so that
> both lines should be joined:
>
> «
> Hi!  I am the service robot at the Translation Project,
> and was awakened by your submission of 'lilypond-2.13.42.es.po'.
>
> The Translation Project is trying to reach a consistent presentation
> for PO files, over all domains and languages.  Your submission was not
> fully canonical, so the robot has made the following modifications to
> your PO file.  You can use 'patch' to apply these changes to your
> local file, but you do not need to: the robot will continue making
> them patiently and automatically here.  This message continues after
> the (maybe long) diff.
>
> --- lilypond-2.13.42.es.po~
> +++ lilypond-2.13.42.es.po
> @@ -845,8 +845,7 @@
>   #, c-format, python-format
>   msgid "Report bugs via %s"
>   msgstr ""
> -"Informe de los fallos en español a "
> -"http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-es\n";
> +"Informe de los fallos en español a
> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-es\n";
>   "o en inglés a %s"


Very strange! I think that it is due to a missing \n (a line break) in
the msgstr. It has not complained with my version...

As far as I'm concerned, I always try to avoid lines longer than 72
characters, because of the line length of the console; I'm then quite
sure the full message will have enough place to be displayed. English
might often be too concise in the wording, and many nouns really are
identical to verbs (too bad for us...)


Cheers,
Jean-Charles