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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: Guidance and Scripty
From:       Jonathan Riddell <jriddell () ubuntu ! com>
Date:       2007-01-05 17:05:13
Message-ID: 20070105170513.GZ3858 () muse ! 19inch ! net
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On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 04:27:28PM +0100, Jannick Kuhr wrote:
> as a member of the german KDE translation team I also care about the german 
> translations of KDE programs in Kubuntu/Rosetta.
> 
> For the release of edgy I checked all the KDE apps in Rosetta to look for 
> errors during the import of the upstream translation files. By doing this I 
> noticed that the template of the application "Guidance" (playground-base in 
> svn [1]) used for Rosetta is much newer than the one for our upstream 
> translators.
> 
> The one for Rosetta was created manually by Jonathan Riddell (rev=581434) and 
> scripty generally does not generate files for the upstream translation teams 
> any more. At the moment Rosetta is used as the primary source of translations 
> for guidance since the program is used primarily in Kubuntu.
> 
> After contacting the author and Jonathan some weeks ago, the problem seems to 
> be that scripty is not able to handle apps written in python at all. [2]
> 
> I don't know much about the way scripty works... Do we have any possibilities 
> to fix this issue and get back to the common way of translations, what is 
> also wished by the author? Are other apps affected as well?

It seems not to be possible to automatically update the .pot in KDE 3,
the KDE version of xgettext doesn't work with python according to the
commit message Nicholas Goutte gave.

"You cannot extract Python files with KDE3's xgettext
(And in future for KDE4, you would need to be able to tell that they
are Python source file, which is currently not possible either.)"

I've updated the guidance.pot file in templates manually for now,
hopefully that doesn't break anything having python formatted strings
in there.

Jonathan
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