** Changed in: intltool
Status: Unknown => Invalid
** Changed in: intltool (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/182606
Title:
intltool: Would check_po.pl be useful?
Status in Internationalization Tool Collection:
Invalid
Status in “intltool” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Binary package hint: intltool
Pidgin has a script named check_po.pl. I'm submitting it here in case it'd be
useful as part of the intltool suite. I'll upload it as an attachment once
this
bug is created.
One of our translators said:
I think "msgfmt -c" only finds hard errors in .po files. In most cases,
the "msgfmt -c" errors prevent the compilation, if they are not fixed:
An example:
#: ../src/ft.c:442
#, c-format
msgid "%s is not a valid filename.\n"
msgstr "%s ist kein gültiger Dateiname."
Because of the missing line ending ("\n") the file can not be
compiled.
$ msgfmt -c de.po
de.po:2121: `msgid' and `msgstr' entries do not both end with '\n'
msgfmt: found 1 fatal error
$ make
file=`echo de | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo && rm -f $file &&
/usr/bin/msgfmt -o $file de.po
de.po:2121: `msgid' and `msgstr' entries do not both end with '\n'
/usr/bin/msgfmt: found 1 fatal error
*** Error code 1
check_po.pl is more a "lint" tool for gettext. It finds very much
possible problems in .po files (from check_po.pl):
# Various checks on po file translations:
# - printf-style format strings;
# - differences in trailing newlines;
# - empty (non-fuzzy) msgid;
# - likely whitespace errors on joining multi-line entries
# Ignores all fuzzy entries.
#
# Options:
# -x Don't do standard checks above (eg, just check one of below).
# -n Check newlines within strings; ie, that have equal numbers
# of newlines in msgstr and msgid. (Optional because this may
# happen legitimately.)
# -w Check leading whitespace. Sometimes whitespace is simply
# spacing (eg, for widget labels etc), or punctuation differences,
# so this may be ok.
# -W Check trailing whitespace. See -w above.
# -p Check trailing punctuation.
# -c Check capitalization of first non-whitespace character
# (only if [a-zA-Z]).
# -e Check on empty (c.q. new) msgstr
I use both tools with the following options:
msgfmt:
$ LANG=C msgfmt --check --check-accelerators=_ -c de.po
This does the standard checks (-c|--check) and also checks presence of
keyboard accelerators for menu items.
check_po.pl:
./check_po.pl -xnwWpce de.po
This does not do the standard checks (because I don't want to see all
the "*** Possible non-whitespace line-join problem in msgstr" warnings -
I think this are false-positives). But it checks for other problems like
different trailung punctuations. See above for the meanings of the other
switches.
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