Strings with context wrongly translated in gok

["Abel Cheung" <abelcheung gmail com>]

Surprise, surprise..... (answer below)


On 9/14/06, Runa B <runabh gmail com> wrote:
> > When the msgid is "some prefix|" without an actual string, the translated
> > msgstr becomes "" if no content is needed (see the translator comments in
> > the gok .po files). Although "" is correct, this counts as "untranslated"
> > for msgfmt/intlook/i18n-status, etc. This _is_ a problem.
> >
> In case the msgstr is untranslated or fuzzy, doesnt the original msgid
> string show up on the interface? Hence if these strings are left blank
> the original msgid i.e. "some prefix|" would be used in the display,
> which beats the purpose of leaving out the prefix in the translation in
> the first place.
> Please correct me if I am wrong.

After reading the code with my untrained eyes, it seems gok handle
it specially:

if (has_level_2)
{
       gok_modifier_add ("level2");
       level2_string = g_utf8_strchr (level2_string, -1, '|');
       if (level2_string) ++level2_string; /* works because '|' is one byte */
       has_level_2 = strlen (level2_string) > 0;
}

Looks like gok is not using Q_() macros, and just strips
"anything|" returned from the string returned by gettext
call. So that means translating it into

       msgstr "level 2|"

is actually fine. But I think it is still safer to ask gok developers...

Abel

> regards
> Runa
>
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