Problem with smolt.master-smoon.messages.po (F12)

[Domingo Becker]

2009/12/17 Sam Friedmann <sfriedma at redhat.com>:
>
> #: hardware/templates/deviceclass.html:19
> #, python-format
> msgid "% hosts detected ${type}"
> msgstr "% hôtes détectés ${type}"
>
> Looking for a solution, I have tried to add a second percentage sign, or the
> letter "s" but nothing changed. I eventually looked through old emails and
> noticed that there has been some discussions about the same problem but it
> seems that there is no solution yet - unless if I overlooked one of the
> emails.
> Does anyone have an idea about what could be done ?

There seems to be a problem in the gettext library, in the way it
takes the format string.
The string comes from a line in deviceclass.html in smolt-server package:
        <th valign="top" width="25%">${_("% hosts detected ")} ${type}</th>
so the string is wrongly extracted. I think it should be
msgid "% hosts detected"

Probably filing a bug against gettext would solve the problem.
Later, all the translations tools would have to be rebuilt again,
which I guess it's something that would take a long time.

Another faster solution would be to ask the developer to change that
string to something that doesn't confuse gettext library.
I tried that for another package [1] but the developer refused to change it.

As said before, the string is used in the smolts web server, in an
html template to produce an output like [2].
But let's face the true: the site is not currently using our
translations! or it doesn't detect properly the selected language in
my firefox under Fedora 12 and Fedora 11.

To solve the problem, for the Spanish translation we used

msgid "% hosts detected ${type}"
msgstr "% hosts detectados ${type}"

and then, we were able to upload the file.

But somebody has to file that bug against gettext package.

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=523437

[2] http://www.smolts.org/static/stats/by_class_VIDEO.html

kind regards

Domingo Becker (es)