From kde-kimageshop Wed Jun 30 09:49:34 2021
From: Alvin Wong
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2021 09:49:34 +0000
To: kde-kimageshop
Subject: Re: HTML `& quot; ` entity in Qt designer UI file causes translation to not be used
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I made a merge request on this:
https://invent.kde.org/sdk/kde-dev-scripts/-/merge_requests/15
Alvin Wong 於 24/6/2021 22:19 寫道:
> Hi,
>
> Some of the formatting have been mixed up. Please check
> https://invent.kde.org/-/snippets/1730 for a clearer version of the
> message.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Alvin Wong
>
> Alvin Wong 於 24/6/2021 22:06 寫道:
>> Hi,
>>
>> When I was checking the translations for Krita, I noticed some UI
>> items not using the translation even though they are available and
>> translated in the PO files. On further investigation I found out it
>> is due to the HTML """ entity in the strings.
>>
>> For example, the string in
>> `libs/ui/forms/wdgperformancesettings.ui:552`[1] contains
>> `"`, which is output as `"` inside a string literal by
>> `uic`. The full line in the generated header file is as follows:
>>
>> chkTransformToolForceLodMode->setToolTip(tr2i18n("The
>> transform tool preview will always use instant preview, even if
>> instant preview is disabled in the "View"
>> menu
", nullptr));
>>
>> In the PO file [2] however, the extracted string looks like this:
>>
>> #. i18n: ectx: property (toolTip), widget (QCheckBox,
>> chkTransformToolForceLodMode)
>> #: libs/ui/forms/wdgperformancesettings.ui:552
>> #, kde-format
>> msgid ""
>> "