An English menu entry in German locale in gajim

[Thomas Boje]

Binary package hint: gajim

Gajim reports itself as version 0.11.2

$LANG: de_DE.UTF-8@euro
English: Actions -> Add Contact
German (is now): Aktionen -> Add Contact
German (should be): Aktionen -> Kontakt hinzufügen
(note the umlaut (html's ü))

I think previous versions had this already translated.

[Nafallo Bjälevik (nafallo)]

#: ../data/glade/account_context_menu.glade.h:2
msgid "_Add Contact..."
msgstr "Kontakt _hinzufügen..."

[Nafallo Bjälevik (nafallo)]

nafallo@wizard:~$ grep Kontakt\ \_hinzufügen /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/gajim.mo
Binary file /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/gajim.mo matches

It's in Gajim on my system. Please run that command and give the output.

[Thomas Boje (tb7653)]

$ LC_ALL=C grep Kontakt\ \_hinzufügen /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/gajim.mo
Binary file /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/gajim.mo matches

I looked around a little, and I think that the untranslated (i.e. English) string might have changed lately. If the translation has not been updated, the string can not be found and is not used.

(partially): grep Contact /usr/share/gajim/data/glade/*
/usr/share/gajim/data/glade/account_context_menu.glade: <property name="label" translatable="yes">_Add Contact...</property>
/usr/share/gajim/data/glade/roster_window.glade: <property name="label" translatable="yes">Add _Contact</property>

Especially interesting are the results of the following greps:
$ LC_ALL=C grep "Add _Contact" /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/gajim.mo
$ LC_ALL=C grep "_Add Contact" /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/gajim.mo
Binary file /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/gajim.mo matches

[Nafallo Bjälevik (nafallo)]

nafallo@wizard:~/devel/gajim/ubuntu/po$ grep -A1 Add\ Contact de.po
msgid "_Add Contact..."
msgstr "Kontakt _hinzufügen..."
nafallo@wizard:~/devel/gajim/ubuntu/po$ grep -A1 Add\ \_Contact de.po
msgid "Add _Contact"
msgstr "Kontakt _hinzufügen..."

BUT I can reproduce the failing grep.

[Thomas Boje (tb7653)]

I'm not sure whether it means something, but I downloaded the source from gajim.org and looked into de.po myself.
If found this:

#: ../data/glade/roster_window.glade.h:2
#, fuzzy
msgid "Add _Contact"
msgstr "Kontakt _hinzufügen..."

Could it be that the fuzzy comment is interpreted by the compiler that translates the .po into a .mo, so that the lines are in fact ignored? In any case, I think it is inconsistent, that the English version does not have an ellipsis, but the German has.

I also checked gajim.org's trac and that particular line was changed in revision 8706, about two months ago: http://trac.gajim.org/changeset/8706/trunk/data/glade/roster_window.glade

[Thomas Boje (tb7653)]

(Sorry for double post; apparently I can't edit my comments.)

Just to make sure I checked svn head de.po (http://trac.gajim.org/browser/trunk/po/de.po) and the entry in question there has changed:

2285 #: ../data/glade/roster_window.glade.h:2
2286 msgid "Add _Contact..."
2287 msgstr "Kontakt _hinzufügen..."

No "fuzzy" and ellipsis in both languages. I assume this is already fixed, I just have to wait for the next release.

[Stephan Rügamer (sruegamer)]

This is correct for the german translation. add contact is not translated at all...
the right translation needs to be "Kontakt hinzuf&uuml;gen"

[Nafallo Bjälevik (nafallo)]

gajim (0.11.3-0ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  * New upstream release:
    - Fix bookmarks support detection
    - Improve file transfer on windows
    - Fix some zeroconf bugs
    - Fix focus bug in chat window
    - Fix nickname changement behaviour in groupchats
  * Merge our changes, patches and backports
  * po/de.po:
    - Removed the fuzzy and the dots for a translation (LP: #162584)

gajim (0.11.2-0ubuntu2) UNRELEASED; urgency=low

  * debian/control:
    - Change bazaar.launchpad.net to code.launchpad.net
    - Change the recommend on dbus-glib to python-dbus (LP: #152333)
  * src/common/zeroconf/connection_zeroconf.py:
    - Apply patch from Stefan Bethge to fix an IndexError (LP: #151568)

 -- Nafallo Bjaelevik <email address hidden> Sat, 17 Nov 2007 13:26:57 +0000

[Thomas Boje (tb7653)]

Nice, thanks.