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[Seth Hillbrand <seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Rigo-

The mismatching line breaks check can be useful in catching issues where
there is semantic information in the break.  But you are correct that this
check is not critical.  Since it breaks your translation, we should disable
it.

The issue of the C-format check is curious.  According to
https://docs.weblate.org/en/latest/user/checks.html#c-format, your
placeholder should be valid.  Perhaps there is another C-format check that
it doesn't pass?

-Seth

On Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 8:30 AM RigoLigo RLC <rigoligo03@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Recently I've found some annoying checks that are preventing some
> proper translation being done (translations that don't pass the checks
> won't be compiled into .mo file) when working on Simplified Chinese
> translation.
>
> 1. There must be same "lines" of text in original text and translated
> text. This one is preventing the custom DRC rule syntax helps being
> compiled. There's many manual line breaks in the text, probably to
> manually control the dialog width, however the translated Chinese text
> can be a bit shorter than English text, and there'll be a few lines
> less than English text. Weblate noticed this issue and prevented the
> text from being compiled. This check doesn't seem to make any sense
> for me. Could you guys provide a good explanation?
>
> 2. Words in English sentences can be different order from Chinese, for
> example, "Pad 1 of J3" is actually "J3 的焊盘 1" when translated, so I
> need to use order marks or whatever it is called in the translation
> text, so "Through hole pad %s of %s" is translated as "%2$s 的通孔焊盘 %1$"
> [1]. But this kind of order marking isn't in standard ISO C99 (it's an
> POSIX standard instead), and C-format check of Weblate fails. I
> checked GNU gettext docs and it said translators can rely on this
> feature [2]. How do we solve this problem?
>
> Rigo
>
> [1]
> https://hosted.weblate.org/translate/kicad/master-source/zh_Hans/?checksum=65ad27d657ff921f
> [2]
> https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/c_002dformat.html
>
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