[PD] problem with translation : WAS Re: testing some 0.48.0 GUI updates

[Dan Wilcox]

Fixed in a bugfix PR: https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/109 <https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/109>

> On Jul 19, 2017, at 10:46 AM, Dan Wilcox <danomatika at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Jul 19, 2017, at 10:10 AM, pd-list-request at lists.iem.at <mailto:pd-list-request at lists.iem.at> wrote:
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>> Le 17/07/2017 à 12:13, Dan Wilcox a écrit :
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>>> * The translation build system has been updated as it wasn't automatically refreshing the translation files. For translators, there should be new strings to add and other to update (see po/README.txt for details). For users, the menu titles should now be translated for those languages which do so.
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>> I'm updating the french translation file, but I've got a problem with the line :
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>> msgid "file edit put find media window help"
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>> if I translate this line, the pg GUI will not start.
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> That line should be removed as it's been replaced by each menu item as a separate string. The reason why Pd can't start is that the strings in that list are used to call procedures ala pd_start_file, pd_start_edit, etc. Changing them means tcl errors early in the startup and nothing seems to happen. I figured this out the hard way too :)
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>> should I just ignore this line?
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> Yes. I will check the Tcl to make sure it shouldn't appear in the translations. That might be an artifact to my earlier experiments.
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>> What is the best process to share this file : forking pd on sourforce git, changing the file and doing a push request?
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> Whichever works best for Miller, really. We've been working successfully by doing small feature Pos via Github as well. Since it's likely a small update, you could generate a patch and send to pd-list as well. I'm finding GitHub easiest for my workflow, but use whatever works for you :)
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