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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Akihiro MOTOKI" <amotoki at gmail.com>
> To: "Ying Chun Guo" <guoyingc at cn.ibm.com>
> Cc: openstack-docs at lists.openstack.org
> Sent: Wednesday, May 8, 2013 8:19:23 AM
> Subject: Re: [Openstack-docs] some minor issues during ops-guide translation on Transifex
> 
> Hi Daisy,
> 
> 2013/5/8 Ying Chun Guo <guoyingc at cn.ibm.com>
> 
> 
> >
> > > (2) Transifex cannot handle % character properly
> > >
> > > Some sentences contains "%" character followed by a space and
> > > it seems Transifex recognizes the sequence as a conversion specifier
> > > by mistake.
> > >
> > > For example, "Once you have reproduced the issue (or are 100%
> > > confident that this is indeed a valid bug) and have permissions to
> > > do so, set:" contains "% c".
> > > When translating the sentence, Transifex warns us that there is no
> > > "% c" in the translation
> > > and we cannot save the translated sentence. Now we insert a dummy
> > > word such "%c_dummy" to avoid this issue.
> > >
> > > Or should we escape % character by %%?
> > > By doing it we can avoid the above problem, but AFAIK such escape is
> > > not done in other po related tools such as po4a.
> > >
> > > Any suggestion?
> >
> > It looks like a bug of Transifex.
> > David's solution may work.
> > We can change all "%" to "%" while converting to POT file, but it may
> > affect
> > the readability.
> > I see you reported a bug, and somebody suggested to use "completely"
> > instead of "100%".
> > Can we do the same change in operation guide?
> >
> 
> '%' character appears in several places in the operations guide. "100%" is
> just an example.
> Replacing "80%" or "90%" with other words looks hard to me.
> It looks good to convert % to % though the readability may become a
> little worse.
> 
> By grepping the POT file, I got the following:
> 
> msgid "Nagios alerts you with a WARNING when any disk on the compute node
> is 80% full and CRITICAL when 90% is full."
> msgid "By combining the resources used with the tenant's quota, you can
> figure out a usage percentage. For example, if this tenant is using 1
> Floating IP out of 10, then they are using 10% of their Floating IP quota.
> You can take this procedure and turn it into a formatted report:"
> msgid "Once you have reproduced the issue (or are 100% confident that this
> is indeed a valid bug) and have permissions to do so, set:"
> msgid "All sites are based on Ubuntu 12.04 with KVM as the hypervisor. The
> OpenStack version in use is typically the current stable version, with 5 to
> 10% back ported code from trunk and modifications."
> msgid "The CSAIL cloud is currently 64 physical nodes with a total of 768
> physical cores and 3,456 GB of RAM. Persistent data storage is largely
> outside of the cloud on NFS with cloud resources focused on compute
> resources. There are 65 users in 23 projects with typical capacity
> utilization nearing 90% we are looking to expand."
> 
> Does anyone know where we can report a bug? There is a public discussion
> site available on Transifex, but it does not seem to be active...
> 
> Akihiro

Hi Akihiro-san,

I believe that the Transifex developers track issues attached to their github repositories available here:

    https://github.com/transifex

I have also CC'd Dimitris Glezos from Transifex to see if he has heard of anything like this.

Thanks,

Steve