Re: Translation problems with default location in Weather applet

[Ankitkumar Rameshchandra Patel <ankit redhat com>]

Simos Xenitellis wrote:

> 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
>
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"gu" (Gujarati-India) is fixed now !

Regards,
Ankit