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[Gabor Kelemen <kelemeng@xxxxxxxx>]

After filing bug #868571, I played a little with this, and turns out I
was wrong in comment #8 of bug 514401: the translations that used to be
not loaded are loaded. Probably I forgot to discard former checkbox
results, or I made something trivially stupid.

This was the good news, the bad news is this: one line long strings that
are part of the test with the fixed multi-paragraph text, and used to be
loaded, are not loaded anymore. For example, from jobs/usb.txt.in:

_description:
 USB HDD verification procedure:
 1.- Plug a USB HDD or thumbdrive into the computer
 2.- An icon should appear on the desktop and in the "Places" menu at the top of the screen.
 3.- Click Test to begin
 .
 If the test is successful, you should see the Yes radio button marked.

The first translatable part (before the single dot) was extracted
without the line breaks, and its l10n didn't work, while the l10n of the
one line text worked. After building checkbox with the fix in bug
#868571, the situation is turned around, the long text is localized and
the short one is not, see the screenshots.

** Attachment added: "Before fixing bug 868571"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-translations/+bug/740146/+attachment/2538214/+files/checkbox-untr.png

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/740146

Title:
  Translations are not loaded for the test descriptions in Checkbox

Status in Checkbox System Testing:
  Triaged
Status in Ubuntu Translations:
  Triaged
Status in “checkbox” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: checkbox

  This is a follow-up to bug 514401.

  While now correctly translatable in Launchpad, the messages for the
  test descriptions in checkbox are always shown in English when
  launching the application.

  That is, available translations are not being loaded.

  As an application in main, and as per the Ubuntu philosophy (*),
  Checkbox should be available to everyone in their own language, hence
  I'm marking the importance as High in the ubuntu-translations task.

  Here are some details of previous research
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/checkbox/+bug/514401/comments/17
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/checkbox/+bug/514401/comments/18

  (*) Apart from the fact that we're losing many potential contributors
  to checkbox data submissions if they aren't able to read the test
  descriptions.

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