Hi,
I just found, that also Latvian team has translated that file to
Japanese :) Real fun.

http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/l10n-kde3/lv/messages/extragear-utils/guidance.po?revision=693289&view=markup

WBR,
Maris.


2007/10/30, "Sveinn í Felli (IMAP)" <sveinki@nett.is>:
> Hi,
>
> I'm translating KDE to icelandic; some weeks ago Kbabel
> started suggesting translations (from db) wich were in
> ukrainian. It happened to be guidance.po which had
> infiltrated our .is repository instead of its native .uk one.
>
> See also mail from 28/07/2007
> http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-i18n-doc&m=118565386528741&w=2
> Commit 693289 by jriddel -
> trunk/l10n-kde3/XX/messages/extragear-utils/guidance.po
>
> Saludos
>
> Sveinn í Felli
>
>
> Axel Bojer wrote:
> > Axel Bojer wrote:
> >> Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> >>> On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 06:14:24PM +0100, Axel Bojer wrote:
> >>>> Probably this is a problem with (k)ubuntu, but just to be sure I
> >>>> will ask here too if more distributions have this problem:
> >>>>
> >>>> When I open ?System settings -- Monitor and display? the tabs and
> >>>> great parts of the windows there are in Japanese! -- although I have
> >>>> installed, and chosen, Norwegian as my preferred language, and
> >>>> Norwegian is showed almost everywhere else.
> >>>>
> >>>> So have someone else experienced something similar?
> >>>> Is Japanese then a fall-back for Norwegian in Kubuntu 7.10?
> >>>
> >>> It's a problem in Kubuntu only, either my packaging went wonky or
> >>> something
> >>> funny happened in our language packs.  I'm looking into it.
> >>>
> >>> Jonathan
> >>
> >> Very nice!
> >>
> >> Bug report here:
> >> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150729
> >>
> >> I am trying to find which package it is, but still no success (I
> >> searched for the string
> >> "Endring i denne delen krever root-tilgang"
> >> that is present in that dialogue. I found it only in
> >> nb/messages/kdelibs, but that file is OK in our repository, and
> >> (strange enough) a substitution with our mo-package instead of
> >> Kubuntus did not help either.
> >>
> >> Then i searched for "Color calibration image", one of the few
> >> non-japanes strings there (most of them actually are english).
> >> $ grep -ir 'Color calibration image' *|grep -v .svn
> >> kde3-trunk/templates/messages/extragear-utils/guidance.pot:msgid
> >> "Color calibration image:"
> >> kde4-trunk/nb/docmessages/kdebase/kcontrol_kcmdisplay.po:msgid "Color
> >> calibration image"
> >> kde4-trunk/nn/docmessages/kdebase/kcontrol_kcmdisplay.po:msgid "Color
> >> calibration image"
> >> kde4-trunk/templates/docmessages/kdebase/kcontrol_kcmdisplay.pot:msgid
> >> "Color calibration image"
> >>
> kde4-trunk/templates/docmessages/kdebase-runtime/kcontrol_kcmdisplay.pot:msgid
> >> "Color calibration image"
> >>
> >> A search for 'gamma controls how your monitor' gave the same files.
> >>
> >> It seems that this part was not translated into Norwegian for kde3,
> >> only for kde4.
> >>
> >> Somehow Japanese, together with English is the fall-back for Norwegian
> >> in this case :-P
> >
> >
> > Solution (workaround):
> >
> > msgfmt -o guidance.mo
> > kde3-trunk/templates/messages/extragear-utils/guidance.pot
> >
> > sudo mv /usr/share/locale-langpack/nb/LC_MESSAGES/guidance.mo
> > /usr/share/locale-langpack/nb/LC_MESSAGES/guidance.mo-gml
> >
> > sudo mv kde3-trunk/templates/messages/extragear-utils/guidance.mo
> > /usr/share/locale-langpack/nb/LC_MESSAGES/guidance.mo
> >
> > ... replaces the Japanese parts with English, for most Norwegians I
> > suppose this is easier understandable :-P
> >
> >
> > Best regards
> > Axel Bojer
> >
>
>