[Openstack-i18n] The Transifex '%' problem

Gabriel Wainer gabrielcw at gmail.com
Tue Aug 6 15:40:58 UTC 2013


Thank you very much for the answer and the tip Akihiro. I have just
downloaded .po file, changed the string, sent it back and it worked nicely.


Regards,
Gabriel


On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Akihiro Motoki <amotoki at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Gabriel,
>
> We Japanese community faced the same problem.
> When I reported it to Transifex GitHub, I got the following response.
> https://github.com/transifex/transifex/issues/239
> https://github.com/transifex/transifex/issues/219
>
> PO file is generated from various kind of sources which includes
> program sources or normal documents.
> Program sources may constains several % specifiers and % character has
> a special meaning.
> On the other hand, % is a normal character in normal documents
> (including OpenStack documents).
> Trasifex behavior mainly focuses on the former.
>
> Transifex cannot know from what source uploaded PO files are generated.
> I think Transifex needs an additional attribute to specify a type of
> PO files to address this issue.
>
> At this moment, we need to escape % character to avoid this problem in
> Transifex.
>
> Thanks,
> Akihiro
>
> P.S.
> I often translates message strings extracted from program sources
> and this feature of Transifex is really helpful for such contents.
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Gabriel Wainer <gabrielcw at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > Recently I faced the '%' problem from Transifex described here.
> >
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-manuals/+bug/1192091
> >
> > This does looks like an issue in Transifex. Have anyone talked with the
> > Transifex guys to ask if they are aware of that? I searched their issues
> but
> > there isn't any about it.
> >
> > https://github.com/transifex/transifex/issues?labels=&page=1&state=open
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Gabriel Wainer.
> >
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> >
>
>
>
> --
> Akihiro MOTOKI <amotoki at gmail.com>
>
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