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Re: Translation on Launchpad

 

Hi Jango,

I tried translating on the launchpad translation system. It's great.

But I found that the bash script drops line breaks.
We can use \n as a line breaks in some places, but we can not use it in "market_description".

Could you fix it?

On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:51:32 +0100
Jango <j.4@xxxxxx> wrote:

> But therefore i have to upload a *.po file... true?
> I haven't managed to convert the manually translated strings.xml files
> into this *.po files.
> I think the reason therefore is that we have completely different
> layouts in all the strings.xml files. Sometimes strings are missing, the
> tabs are different, comments changed,.... With the newly generated
> german .xml file I am able to generate a .po file.
> 
> If it is also possible to upload a xml file, i will do it.
> 
> Best,
> Stefan
> 
> On 31/10/11 21:35, pjv wrote:
> > Hi Jango,
> >
> > You don't have to spend 10 mins to copy over the strings to Launchpad.
> > You can just upload a zip, and if you have the right files in the right
> > subdirectories, the launchpad people will import them in a week or so.
> >
> > I know coz I wrote the first script :-) (unless something has changed).
> >
> > Let me know if you really can't figure it out.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Jango schreef op ma 31-10-2011 om 21:06 [+0100]:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I have managed to get our strings up to Launchpad Translation:
> >> https://translations.launchpad.net/tomdroid/
> >>
> >> A bash script will help us to create a *.pot (Launchpad translation
> >> template), when some strings got changed in the main branch.
> >> It has just to be run after merging new strings and Launchpad will
> >> automatically fetch it from the sources.
> >>
> >> Then our strings will hopefully be translated by all the awesome
> >> volunteers and before an release we just download the translation files
> >> (tomdroid-**.po) and convert them back into the android xml files
> >> (values-**/strings.xml).
> >>
> >> All the thanks goes to this project:
> >> http://code.google.com/p/openintents/wiki/Translations
> >>
> >> Unfortunately, we have to manually enter the already existing
> >> translations (3 remaining) into Launchpad first. I already did it for
> >> German and it took me about 10 minutes. If you are bored some time,
> >> please pick a strings.xml file and copy/paste the translations into
> >> Launchpad.
> >>
> >> Thanks for your help and I hope you enjoy the new system!
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Stefan
> >>
> >> PS: Nothing is fixed yet, I haven't merged the according branch
> >> (lp:~j-4/tomdroid/launchpad-translations) into main. If you have doubts,
> >> please shout!
> >>
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 Koichi Akabe


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