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Just a follow up on that problem I found on Transifex web client with
"|%s|" strings.

It was really a bug, and Transifex team quickly fixed it!

http://support.transifex.com/customer/en/portal/questions/1434640-problem-translating-s-?new=1434640

Regards,
Gabriel.




On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Gabriel Wainer <gabrielcw at gmail.com> wrote:

> Another thing I noticed in the Transifex web client is that if the string
> contains "|%s|", it never loads. If I choose on the list one string as
> this one from nova-translations:
>
> networks retrieved for instance: |%s|
>
> The loading icon keeps turning forever and never finishes loading data for
> translation. However if the string has other things like "|%(address)s|"
> between the pipes, it works.
>
> Doesn't seems to be a browser issue. I tried Chrome, Opera and IE.
>
> Anyone else have seen this?
>
> Thanks again,
> Gabriel.
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Gabriel Wainer <gabrielcw at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>> >> >
>>> >> > _______________________________________________
>>> >> > Openstack-i18n mailing list
>>> >> > Openstack-i18n at lists.openstack.org
>>> >> > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-i18n
>>> >> >
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>>
>>
>>
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