Bug 230388

Created attachment 110775 [details]
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Karl, could you please add an additional new line after "Abonnements" in the german translation.
Btw. what about other languages? Are there any other long translations for that string?

Ok, I fix it in our SVN for the 10.2 update.

Jens, can't you use the "rtf" widget?  If not, please add a comment for SLE10SP1 and OS 10.3.  The translator might not know that he is allowed to spread the text over more than 2 lines.

(There are no reports about other languages.)

  // Translators: limit to 2x 50 charachters - if more needed take 3x 50 chars but NOTHING more

Do you think this is sufficient? :)
This note is in the code since the first version. Obviously the translator(s) did not read it.

No. I cann't use richtext here - this is a label text. An RTF widget would be very ugly there.

Fixed in SVN.  
Don't blame the translators, blame xgettext ;)  xgettext seems to ignore the comment because the following message text starts and ends on line of its own.  If you'd write it as follows, it would work:

    // Translators: limit to 2x 50 charachters - if more needed take 3x 50 chars but NOTHING more
    string nccc_top = _("\
Get technical support and product updates and
manage subscriptions with Novell Customer Center.");

Probably a strange xgettext limitation...  I'm going to investigate.

Reported upstream.  After the next run, it should appear here:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2007-06/threads.html

We are going to fix or work around it as rephrased by Martin:
 
From: Martin Vidner <mvidner@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [yast-devel] [Bruno Haible] Re: xgettext: Extracting comment blocks from YCP files
To: yast-devel@opensuse.org
Cc: Karl Eichwalder <ke@suse.de>
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 11:20:58 +0200

On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 09:48:02AM +0200, Karl Eichwalder wrote:
> Please, change comments in YCP source files as explained in the
> attachment, if time permits.  This bug surfaced along with
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=230388

Thanks, Karl.

It took me some time to understand so I'll rephrase:

If you have unusual formatting, comments for translators will not
make it to the pot files. So make sure that there are no newlines
between the parentheses and quotes.

Good:
  // Foo!
  _("long ... string")
Bad:
  // Foo!
  _(
   "long ... string"
   )

To see how much code needs fixing I have searched[*] my system and
SVN for newlines after the opening paren and found these files. (I
cannot search for newlines before the closing paren because that
would catch also non-gettext stuff, but that will be fixed in
xgettext itself.)

./isns/src/helps.ycp
./iscsi-server/src/helps.ycp
./registration/src/clients/suse_register_auto.ycp
./registration/src/clients/inst_suse_register.ycp
./printer/src/common/dialogs-connection.ycp


[*] find . -name \*.ycp | xargs grep '_([^"]*$'

Back to the initial problem.  3x50 is too small.  ATM, the German text looks as follows:

#: src/clients/inst_suse_register.ycp:77
msgid ""
"Get technical support and product updates and\n"
"manage subscriptions with Novell Customer Center."
msgstr ""
"Über das Novell Customer Center können Sie "
"technischen Support in Anspruch nehmen, "
"Produktaktualisierungen anfordern und "
"Abonnements verwalten."

Jens, please re-write the comment as explained by Martin (#c7).

fixed