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Re: Translation on Launchpad

 

Hi,

I confirmed it was fixed and works fine.
Thank you!!

On Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:11:52 +0100
Jango <j.4@xxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I now fixed it the way, that double tabs are converted in linebreaks and
> one tab. This is at one hand an easy fix, because you do not need any
> other scripts and there is also no change needed on converting *.po back
> to *.xml. The newly translated language xml looks completely the same,
> as the original English one.
> 
> One small thing of course: We should not use double tabs to sort the
> xml-tags, otherwise it not converted properly. Double tabs inside tags
> don't matter - they just change the formatting of the xml file (one line
> break more). But I noted this in an comment anyways. Just see the
> strings.xml file in the branch to see what i mean:
> 
> lp:~j-4/tomdroid/launchpad-translations
> 
> 
> Best,
> Stefan
> 
> On 01/11/11 07:32, Koichi Akabe wrote:
> > 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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-- 
Regards,
 Koichi Akabe


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