Translation not saved, but without explanation

[Ferdinand]

On a c-format tagged message, if it's erroneously translated, we display a message about the error.

However, if someone does a translation on a page resulting from search (and/or through filters) they end up without explanation and the translation is silently discarded. We should fix this so explanation is shown and translator is offered an option to correct her mistake.

[Ferdinand (office-chricar)]

Entering this correct text with %d worked
"Verbindung mit dem Server wurde getrennt. Nächster Versuch in %d Sekunden."

[Adi Roiban (adiroiban)]

This is a feature, not a bug.

For more info please read about `gettext c-format"
http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/gettext/c_002dformat-Flag.html

[Ferdinand (office-chricar)]

Yes I finally realized this too, but it would be helpful to get an appropriate error message along with the filed to translate it again

[Adi Roiban (adiroiban)]

Hm... you should have seen an error message:

I am trying this on translations.staging.launchpad.net (our testing server):
https://translations.staging.launchpad.net/openobject-client-kde/5.0/+pots/koo/de/46/+translate

And I got:

„Error in Translation: number of format specifications in 'msgid' and 'msgstr' does not match”

This is the same message that you get by using „gettext”.

In case this message is not user friendly, feel free to open it again the gettext package.

If you did not see a similar message to the one from the attached screen, that we should investigate this problem.

[Ferdinand (office-chricar)]

I do not get the error message on production rosetta -

https://translations.launchpad.net/openobject-client-kde/5.0/+pots/koo/de/+translate?batch=10&show=all&search=server

Example if I try to remove the %d from the translation #46 - it simply does not get saved

[Данило Шеган (danilo)]

I've seen this before: basically, error message is not shown on "search" and/or filtered pages (i.e. "untranslated" and similar).

I'll modify the description and summary to reflect the actual bug.