[zanata-users] problems with po files for subscription-manager/candlepin

Wed Feb 8 03:10:04 UTC 2012

Hi Adrian,

The validations currently in Zanata 1.5 (release aimed for late February) will help translators to avoid most of these problems, such as mismatched newlines and format specifiers. We have yet to add a validation for java style format strings, but it appears there is a need here so we could look at adding that for the next point release.

I have not seen any of the header field warnings running msgfmt -c on po files from the 1.5 test machines, so it's likely this problem will also go away with the next release. If you copy the offending headers and your fixes in a reply I'll do more directed testing to ensure they will not cause problems after 1.5 is released.

Cheers, 

David Mason
Software Engineer
L10n Engineering

Red Hat, Asia-Pacific Pty Ltd
Level 1, 193 North Quay
Brisbane 4000

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Adrian Likins" <alikins at redhat.com>
> To: zanata-users at redhat.com
> Sent: Wednesday, 8 February, 2012 2:38:01 AM
> Subject: [zanata-users] problems with po files for	subscription-manager/candlepin
> 
> 
> (Not entirely sure this is the right place for this, but alas)
> 
> I'm been trying to clean up the translations for candlepin
> and subscription-manager, and have been having problems
> with the po files I get back from zanata.
> 
> Often "msgfmt -c" will fail on these files, and I can't
> compile them into mo's.  For example, with the
> po's from candlepin I get:
> 
> as.po:7: some header fields still have the initial default value
> bn.po:7: some header fields still have the initial default value
> de.po:6: some header fields still have the initial default value
> es.po:6: some header fields still have the initial default value
> fr.po:6: some header fields still have the initial default value
> fr.po:48: a format specification for argument {0} doesn't exist in
> 'msgstr'
> fr.po:55: a format specification for argument {0} doesn't exist in
> 'msgstr'
> fr.po:121: a format specification for argument {0} doesn't exist in
> 'msgstr'
> fr.po:132: a format specification for argument {0} doesn't exist in
> 'msgstr'
> fr.po:152: a format specification for argument {0} doesn't exist in
> 'msgstr'
> fr.po:159: a format specification for argument {0} doesn't exist in
> 'msgstr'
> fr.po:182: a format specification for argument {1} doesn't exist in
> 'msgstr'
> fr.po:214: a format specification for argument {0} doesn't exist in
> 'msgstr'
> fr.po:260: a format specification for argument {1} doesn't exist in
> 'msgstr'
> fr.po:295: a format specification for argument {1} doesn't exist in
> 'msgstr'
> fr.po:300: a format specification for argument {1} doesn't exist in
> 'msgstr'
> fr.po:330: a format specification for argument {1} doesn't exist in
> 'msgstr'
> fr.po:335: a format specification for argument {1} doesn't exist in
> 'msgstr'
> fr.po:361: a format specification for argument {0} doesn't exist in
> 'msgstr'
> fr.po:368: a format specification for argument {0} doesn't exist in
> 'msgstr'
> fr.po:373: a format specification for argument {0} doesn't exist in
> 'msgstr'
> fr.po:405: a format specification for argument {0} doesn't exist in
> 'msgstr'
> fr.po:415: a format specification for argument {0} doesn't exist in
> 'msgstr'
> fr.po:420: a format specification for argument {0} doesn't exist in
> 'msgstr'
> fr.po:498: a format specification for argument {0} doesn't exist in
> 'msgstr'
> fr.po:503: a format specification for argument {0} doesn't exist in
> 'msgstr'
> fr.po:540: a format specification for argument {0} doesn't exist in
> 'msgstr'
> fr.po:549: a format specification for argument {0} doesn't exist in
> 'msgstr'
> fr.po:648: a format specification for argument {0} doesn't exist in
> 'msgstr'
> fr.po:692: a format specification for argument {0} doesn't exist in
> 'msgstr'
> fr.po:697: a format specification for argument {0} doesn't exist in
> 'msgstr'
> fr.po:702: a format specification for argument {0} doesn't exist in
> 'msgstr'
> fr.po:711: a format specification for argument {0} doesn't exist in
> 'msgstr'
> fr.po:716: a format specification for argument {0} doesn't exist in
> 'msgstr'
> fr.po:739: a format specification for argument {0} doesn't exist in
> 'msgstr'
> fr.po:744: a format specification for argument {0} doesn't exist in
> 'msgstr'
> fr.po:758: a format specification for argument {0} doesn't exist in
> 'msgstr'
> fr.po:763: a format specification for argument {0} doesn't exist in
> 'msgstr'
> fr.po:788: a format specification for argument {0} doesn't exist in
> 'msgstr'
> fr.po:800: a format specification for argument {0} doesn't exist in
> 'msgstr'
> fr.po:805: a format specification for argument {1} doesn't exist in
> 'msgstr'
> fr.po:810: a format specification for argument {0} doesn't exist in
> 'msgstr'
> msgfmt: found 37 fatal errors
> gu.po:6: some header fields still have the initial default value
> hi.po:7: some header fields still have the initial default value
> hi.po:141: `msgid' and `msgstr' entries do not both end with '\n'
> msgfmt: found 1 fatal error
> it.po:7: some header fields still have the initial default value
> it.po:144: a format specification for argument {0} doesn't exist in
> 'msgstr'
> it.po:779: a format specification for argument {0} doesn't exist in
> 'msgstr'
> msgfmt: found 2 fatal errors
> ja.po:7: some header fields still have the initial default value
> kn.po:6: some header fields still have the initial default value
> ko.po:7: some header fields still have the initial default value
> ml.po:7: some header fields still have the initial default value
> mr.po:6: some header fields still have the initial default value
> or.po:6: some header fields still have the initial default value
> pa.po:6: some header fields still have the initial default value
> pt.po:7: some header fields still have the initial default value
> ru.po:7: some header fields still have the initial default value
> ta.po:6: some header fields still have the initial default value
> te.po:6: some header fields still have the initial default value
> zh_CN.po:7: some header fields still have the initial default value
> zh_TW.po:6: some header fields still have the initial default value
> 
> 
> For subscription-manager:
> as
> 490 translated messages.
> bn
> po/bn.po:924: `msgid' and `msgstr' entries do not both end with '\n'
> po/bn.po:2266: `msgid' and `msgstr' entries do not both end with '\n'
> msgfmt: found 2 fatal errors
> 490 translated messages.
> de
> po/de.po:2295: `msgid' and `msgstr' entries do not both begin with
> '\n'
> msgfmt: found 1 fatal error
> 490 translated messages.
> es
> po/es.po:1246: number of format specifications in 'msgid' and
> 'msgstr'
> does not match
> po/es.po:2279: `msgid' and `msgstr' entries do not both begin with
> '\n'
> msgfmt: found 2 fatal errors
> 490 translated messages.
> fr
> 490 translated messages.
> gu
> 490 translated messages.
> hi
> 490 translated messages.
> it
> 490 translated messages.
> ja
> po/ja.po:2202: `msgid' and `msgstr' entries do not both begin with
> '\n'
> msgfmt: found 1 fatal error
> 490 translated messages.
> kn
> 490 translated messages.
> ko
> 490 translated messages.
> ml
> po/ml.po:2122: `msgid' and `msgstr' entries do not both end with '\n'
> po/ml.po:2162: `msgid' and `msgstr' entries do not both begin with
> '\n'
> po/ml.po:2171: `msgid' and `msgstr' entries do not both begin with
> '\n'
> po/ml.po:2232: `msgid' and `msgstr' entries do not both begin with
> '\n'
> po/ml.po:2241: `msgid' and `msgstr' entries do not both begin with
> '\n'
> po/ml.po:2249: `msgid' and `msgstr' entries do not both end with '\n'
> po/ml.po:2267: `msgid' and `msgstr' entries do not both begin with
> '\n'
> po/ml.po:2276: `msgid' and `msgstr' entries do not both begin with
> '\n'
> po/ml.po:2288: `msgid' and `msgstr' entries do not both begin with
> '\n'
> po/ml.po:2296: `msgid' and `msgstr' entries do not both begin with
> '\n'
> po/ml.po:2304: `msgid' and `msgstr' entries do not both begin with
> '\n'
> po/ml.po:2313: `msgid' and `msgstr' entries do not both begin with
> '\n'
> po/ml.po:2321: `msgid' and `msgstr' entries do not both begin with
> '\n'
> po/ml.po:2340: `msgid' and `msgstr' entries do not both begin with
> '\n'
> po/ml.po:2352: `msgid' and `msgstr' entries do not both begin with
> '\n'
> msgfmt: found 16 fatal errors
> 490 translated messages.
> mr
> 490 translated messages.
> or
> 490 translated messages.
> pa
> 490 translated messages.
> pt_BR
> 237 translated messages, 2 fuzzy translations, 251 untranslated
> messages.
> pt
> po/pt.po:2258: `msgid' and `msgstr' entries do not both begin with
> '\n'
> msgfmt: found 1 fatal error
> 490 translated messages.
> ru
> 490 translated messages.
> ta
> 490 translated messages.
> te
> 490 translated messages.
> zh_CN
> 490 translated messages.
> zh_TW
> 490 translated messages.
> 
> 
> Most of these I can fix by hand (and have), but they keep coming
> back.
> What should I do to prevent these errors in the future?
> 
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