[Sugar-devel] Poll activty translation with gettext

[Tony Anderson]

Any idea by whom and for what reason this was deprecated?

Tony


On 08/29/2017 07:59 PM, James Cameron wrote:
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Internationalization_in_Sugar is deprecated.
>
> Poll activity is translated using translate.sugarlabs.org.
>
> What are you trying to do?
>
> Why not upload translations to translate.sugarlabs.org?
>
> https://github.com/sugarlabs/poll-activity/commits/master shows
> updated POT file and new translations 23 days ago.
>
> https://translate.sugarlabs.org/projects/Poll-Builder/ shows new
> translations only for Guaraní (Paraguay).
>
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 11:56:16AM -0400, Jammily Ortigoza wrote:
>> Hi everybody,
>>
>> I'm trying to translate Poll activity using gettext. I followed this tutorial
>> [1].
>>
>> I have my POTFILE.in.
>>
>>>> cat POTFILES.in
>> encoding: UTF-8
>> PollSession.py
>> poll.py
>> Widgets.py
>>
>> With the POTFILE.in I generated the .pot file:
>>
>> $pwd
>> $HOME/Activities/Poll.activity
>> $python setup.py genpot
>> $ls $HOME/Activities/Poll.activity/po
>> Poll.pot
>>
>> Following, I generated the es.po file:
>>
>> $msginit -l es
>> $ls $HOME/Activities/Poll.activity/po
>> es.po
>>
>> The es.po file is ok, I can see all the messages to be translated. I did the
>> translation an after that I did the last step:
>>
>> msgfmt es.po --output='../locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/[1]
>> org.worldwideworkshop.PollBuilder.mo'
>>
>> Almost all translations work except the ones with the "%s" in the msgid.
>> For example:
>>
>> #: poll.py:367
>> #, python-format
>> msgid "Do you want delete the poll \"%s\"?"
>> msgstr "Desea eliminar la encuesta \"%s\"?"
>>
>> This is still showing in english when I open Poll activity.
>>
>> Does somebody know what am I doing wrong?
>>
>> Regards.
>>
>> --
>> Jammily Ortigoza
>>
>> [1] [2]http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Internationalization_in_Sugar
>>
>> References:
>>
>> [1] http://org.worldwideworkshop.pollbuilder.mo/
>> [2] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Internationalization_in_Sugar
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