[Tradutores-Ubuntu] Sound not working on 15.04 if Pulseaudio is fully localised (affects: el, it, pl, pt_BR, sk, sv, tr, uk, more)

[Marcos Lans]

Correo importante enviado á lista de tradutores de Ubuntu.
Parece que non se deben traducir as cadeas «Yes» e «No» do ficheiro de
Pulseaudio porque deixa de funcionar o son.


On 20/04/15 14:39, Simos Xenitellis wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> tldr: a function in Pulseaudio returns the strings "yes" or "no". Last
> year, those strings were made localizable and some translators started
> translating them. However, apart from log messages, that function is
> used to construct parameters for module loading. Thus, those that
> translated the innocuous "yes"/"no" strings, do not get sound on their
> systems because the essential PA modules cannot get loaded.
> 
> 
> A member of Ubuntu Greece noticed that audio did not work after recent
> updates in 15.04,
> http://forum.ubuntu-gr.org/viewtopic.php?p=326944#p326944
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1445358
> 
> The relevant message in /var/log/syslog was:
> 
> Apr 20 14:03:45 user-laptop pulseaudio[1661]: [pulseaudio] module.c:
> Failed to load module "module-alsa-card" (argument: "device_id="0"
> name="pci-0000_00_1b.0" card_name="alsa_card.pci-0000_00_1b.0"
> namereg_fail=false tsched=ναι fixed_latency_range=όχι ignore_dB=όχι
> deferred_volume=ναι use_ucm=ναι
> card_properties="module-udev-detect.discovered=1""): initialization failed.
> 
> What is says here is that "insmod" (or similar) was called with
> parameters like "tsched=ναι", and failed.
> 
> "git blame" says:
> d806b197 src/pulsecore/core-util.h (poljar (Damir Jelić) 2013-06-27
> 19:28:09 +0200  92) static inline const char *pa_yes_no(bool b) {
> cd13fb36 src/pulsecore/core-util.h (Tanu Kaskinen        2014-03-24
> 09:17:53 +0200  93)     return b ? _("yes") : _("no");
> 
> which means that about a year ago a change was made to make yes/no
> localisable.
> 
> Among the available quick fixes, one is to make pa_yes_no()
> non-localisable as before:
> 
> diff --git a/src/pulsecore/core-util.h b/src/pulsecore/core-util.h
> index dcdc40e..e6be901 100644
> --- a/src/pulsecore/core-util.h
> +++ b/src/pulsecore/core-util.h
> @@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ int pa_parse_boolean(const char *s) PA_GCC_PURE;
>  int pa_parse_volume(const char *s, pa_volume_t *volume);
>  
>  static inline const char *pa_yes_no(bool b) {
> -    return b ? _("yes") : _("no");
> +    return b ? "yes" : "no";
>  }
>  
>  static inline const char *pa_strnull(const char *x) {
>              
> 
> Simos
> 
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