[Mageia-i18n] Need clarification about tx and svn

[atilla ontas]

2011/6/27 Rémi Verschelde <rverschelde at gmail.com>:
> 2011/6/25 atilla ontas <tarakbumba at gmail.com>:
>>
>> Ping! Pong! Any further news? We have hungry new translators but we
>> have to hold tx translations until this issue is fixed...
>>
>
> Okay, I finally found the time to have a look at it. I tried to upload
> the drakx-kbd-mouse-x11.po file, and I had the same error as you,
> namely that I should run msgfmt -c on the file. msgfmt -c did not
> print anything, as it was the case for you. So I had a look at the po
> file directly and I noticed that some translated strings did not
> respect the original layout.
>
> I mean, one of the strings in English is:
> "The two critical parameters are the vertical refresh rate, which is the
> rate\n
> at which the whole screen is refreshed, and most importantly the horizontal\n
> sync rate, which is the rate at which scanlines are displayed.\n
> \n
> It is VERY IMPORTANT that you do not specify a monitor type with a sync
> range\n
> that is beyond the capabilities of your monitor: you may damage your
> monitor.\n
>  If in doubt, choose a conservative setting."
>
> There are seven "\n" which mean "print a new line".
> On the Turkish version, we had:
>
> "Burada ki iki önemli parametre dikey ve yatay tazeleme hızlarıdır.\n
> Seçiminizi yaparken monitörünüzün kapasitesinin üstünde bir seçim\n
> yapmamanız oldukça önemlidir, aksi takdirde monitör zarar görebilir.\n
> Seçerken bir ikileme düşerseniz, düşük çözünürlükte bir ayar seçin."
>
> Since there are only four "\n", I suppose that was the error. I added
> three random "\n" your text,
> and I could upload the file to Tx. You may do the same for the other
> files, and modify the translation that I corrected
> (for I do not know Turkish, so my new lines probably mean nothing).
>
> Regards,
> Rémi / Akien
>
Thanks for deep analysis. It is strange that msgfmt won't catch and
show missing \n characters. I think we have crashed on a gettext bug
but i don't know how do report this. Anyways,  I' ll look at again
other po files deeply this time. Thanks again.