Re: Translation problems with default location in Weather applet

[Simos Xenitellis <simos74 gmx net>]

Ankitkumar Rameshchandra Patel wrote:

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

Hi Ankit,
Thanks for fixing this.

I just found out that the brand new GNOME Bugzilla grants points to the 
bug contributors.
Therefore, if you would like to get your first bugzilla point (see: 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/page.cgi?id=points.html)
feel free to "close" the GNOME Weather bug (change the status to FIXED 
and commit the changes), at
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=325393

GNOME Bugzilla has a hall of fame and thanks to these two localisation 
bugs, I just made it to the top 15 bug reporters :)
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/reports/weekly-bug-summary.html

To list all the reports on Gujarati, simply visit
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/browse.cgi?product=l10n
and click on the number next to your language (the number shows how many 
bug reports are pending for the language).

When you click on the language name, it adds the name to the search box 
above and allows you to search for reports.
However, there is a bug in Bugzilla for this (=ill-formed query), and I 
just file a new bug report
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=325454
[One more bug point for me! :) ]

Therefore, I would suggest for all language teams to have a look at the 
bug reports for their respective language
and start collecting bug points. If there are any problems with this 
procedure, please report back so we fix them.

Happy New (Gregorian) Year 2006,
Simos