Translation problems with default location in Weather applet

[Simos Xenitellis <simos74 gmx net>]

Dear All,

Several translations have problems with the default location in the 
Weather applet.
The default location is used when you add the weather applet on your 
panel; it is the default location for your locale.
Normally you put here the most common location, for example, the capital 
city of your country.

For the last year the translator comments for these messages were 
misleading (they were not updated when gweather got a face lift).
See the changes at
http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gnome-applets/libgweather/gweather-gconf.c?r1=1.2&r2=1.3
The bug report is at
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=325327
and has been fixed on HEAD.

The following languages have some problem with the code of the default 
location, "DEFAULT_CODE"
bn
gl
gu
hi
hy
ky
mk
ms
ne
pa
sq
ta
te

The code should be a 4 letters long, like "LGAV" for Athens, Greece.
You would put here the capital city or any location with the biggest 
concetration of speakers of your language.
See for available locations for your country
http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gnome-applets/gweather/Locations.xml.in?view=markup
(1.7MB HTML page)

The following languages have some problem with the name of the default 
location, "DEFAULT_LOCATION":
ar
az
bn
fa
gl
gu
he
ky
mk
ms
pa
rw
sq
ta
th
vi
zh_CN
zh_TW

The translation should be in your own language/script. Please do not put 
in English.
msgfmt gets fooled with the underscore here and reports an error.
The underscore in DEFAULT_LOCATION is not a shortcut. How can we say to 
gettext about this, as we do with "no-c-format" for the percentage sign?
Some languages added the underscore in the translation here. There 
should be no underscore.

DEFAULT_COORDINATES:
Almost half of the languages got this one wrongly. The coordinates are 
like "37-56N 023-56E". In some cases, the location code has been placed 
here.
Get the location coordinates from
http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gnome-applets/gweather/Locations.xml.in?view=markup

DEFAULT_ZONE:
Only US/Canada have these zones, so in most cases this stays empty. To 
get the translation stats look ok, you
can simply add a space in the translation. gweather will consider the 
zone as unknown and will not display something.
If you translate to "DEFAULT_ZONE", gweather will use the default zone, 
in Pittsburgh.

DEFAULT_RADAR:
As with DEFAULT_ZONE.

In some cases, DEFAULT_LOCATION has been translated verbatim resulting 
in a string that happens to be rather long.
This can cause a buffer overflow, making the weather applet to crash as 
soon as you start it.
If you get this crashing behaviour, it comes from the translation.

If there are more weather locations for your country, you can make a bug 
report to add them to
http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gnome-applets/gweather/Locations.xml.in?view=markup
Cross reference the above URL with the page
http://weather.noaa.gov/international.html

Simos