rosetta not filling in all of .po header

[Carlos Perelló Marín]

On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 01:22 +0100, Valient Gough wrote:
> 
> I've just started using Rosetta to allow users to add translations for
> my program.  It is not a very commonly used program, but the users are
> scattered all over the world.  Thanks for creating the rosetta
> interface!


Thanks for using it!

> 
> So far I've seen two problems:
> 
> 1. rosetta doesn't update all fields in the header, which causes an
> error from gettext's msgfmt command.
> 
> Output when I build the a po file from rosetta (note that this is a
> default setup taken from gettext examples): 
> 
> > make es.gmo
> rm -f es.gmo && /usr/bin/msgfmt -c --statistics -o es.gmo es.po
> /usr/bin/msgfmt: es.po: some header fields still have the initial
> default value
> /usr/bin/msgfmt: es.po: warning: PO file header fuzzy
>                         warning: older versions of msgfmt will give an
> error onthis
> /usr/bin/msgfmt: found 1 fatal error
> 
> 
> The error is due to the uninitialized header fields:
> 
> "Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: FULL NAME <EMAIL at ADDRESS>\n"
> "PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
> "Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL at ADDRESS>\n"

Could you report it at https://launchpad.ubuntu.com/malone?

Thank you.

> 
> 
> 2. Rosetta uses special characters to show blank spaces in the text to
> be translated.  It would be nice if these were translated into real
> spaces when exporting a PO file.  I see those special characters in
> the PO file because users seem to cut-and-paste in order to get the
> right number of spaces.  So if would be convenient if they were
> translated back transparently.

We are going to add some extra sanity checks to prevent the user to
submit that. The idea is that they see the chars but they should not
copy them...


> 
> 
> regards,
> Valient
> 


Cheers.

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