[Mageia-i18n] [Mageia-i18m] Transifex - problem with uploading pot file to the project

Marcello Anni marcello.anni at alice.it
Fri Jan 28 20:43:17 CET 2011


> Hi,
> 
> I have registered at transifex.net and created new project named Lemon 
> POS, http://www.transifex.net/projects/p/lemonpos/ - for training purposes.
> Everything goes fine until I try to upload resources file, i.e. *.pot file.
> After several failures (with no error message), I have read transifex 
> manual to find what may cause my bad luck.
> I followed advice to check syntax of pot file with "msgfmt -c file.pot" 
> command.
> This gave me message:   "some header fields still include default 
> initial values".
> I started playing with header entries. Nothing :(
> Gettext manual also was no helpful in this matter.
> So finally i replaced the whole header with that included in transifex 
> manual. No change.
> I have also tried to upload some pot files I have taken from KDE 
> translations. All of them generate the same message.
> I tried even to upload file with header only. Nothing at all.
> I don't know what to do in such case.
> 
> Well, to check whether I am authorized to do anything, I joined "Chrome 
> Extension.po" small project, 
> http://www.transifex.net/projects/p/tabcloud/resource/chrome-extensionpo/.
> I have translated it, just for fun without any problem.
> 
> Does anybody have any idea how to solve the problem? #transifex seems to 
> be idle.
> 
> My system:
> cat /etc/issue
> Mandriva Linux release 2010.2 (Official) for i586
> Kernel 2.6.36.2-desktop-2mnb on a Dual-processor i686 / \l
> 
> msgfmt --version
> msgfmt (GNU gettext-tools) 0.17
> Copyright (C) 1995-1998, 2000-2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> Licencja GPLv3+: GNU GPL, wersja 3 lub nowsza 
> <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jerzy
> 
> 
just for trying, have you tried to rename .pot file with .po? no other idea on 
mind (i will let you clarify your doubts by people more experted than me : )

cheers,
Marcello


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