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You're right, so far I have no problem with other people translating. But I
hope to have this kind of problem soon :).

in fact I did that for what I understood of translating the strings from
program sources. Is there yet another way to translate files from Transifex?

Thanks,
Gabriel


On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Akihiro Motoki <amotoki at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Gabriel,
>
> Yes. When we upload PO files to Transifex, % checks seem to be skipped.
> This is an easy way to skip the issue.
>
> Note that this approach is dangerous and cannot be used when several
> translators are actively
> translating the same documents. Uploading a PO file may override
> strings from others.
>
> Thanks,
> Akihiro
>
> On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 12:40 AM, Gabriel Wainer <gabrielcw at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > 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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> >> > Openstack-i18n at lists.openstack.org
> >> > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-i18n
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
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