launchpad misidentifies % as string formatting code

[Marcos Lans]

This is the url: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/saucy/+source/checkbox/+pots/checkbox/gl/+translate?show=untranslated

[Daniel Manrique (roadmr)]

The checkbox.pot file has this:

#: ../scripts/gateway_ping_test:257
#, c-format
msgid "Connection established, but lost {}% of packets"
msgstr ""

This is wrong as the string is clearly python-format. I think that's what's causing the problem. I need to look at how intltool extracts strings from that file.

Thanks for reporting this!

[Daniel Manrique (roadmr)]

OK, the % is causing intltool-update to mistake the string for a c-format one. If it's removed, then it doesn't get a type specifier. Also, if the file is renamed gateway_ping_test.py, it gets correctly identified as python-format.

I'll look at which option is better for our purposes.

[Marcos Lans (markooss)]

What about this bug guys?

[Zygmunt Krynicki (zyga)]

I'll try to fix that though I don't know if we can really fix it without patching intltools.

[William Grant (wgrant)]

The .po that was given to Launchpad said the string was c-format, so Launchpad is behaving correctly here.

[Marcos Lans (markooss)]

I tested Checkbox in Ubuntu 14.04 (galician language) but it displays english version though is full translated into galician.

[Jeff Lane  (bladernr)]

Setting to Wont Fix as checkbox is no longer part of the desktop install and this is now out of scope.