[OTR-dev] German translation for Pidgin-otr 3.2.0

Ian Goldberg ian at cypherpunks.ca
Wed May 28 11:07:24 EDT 2008


On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 03:26:49PM +0200, Michael Meier wrote:
> Hello Ian,
> 
> thank you for informing me about the upcoming release of pidgin-otr 
> 3.2.0, so i could update the translation accordingly.
> 
> However, i found one inconsistency.  The text box for entering the 
> secret/answer included the hint "Enter secret here" in pidgin-otr 3.1.0. 
> Now it's just supposed to be left as an empty text box but because of 
> these two gettext macros, the po  header dummy entry is pulled in as 
> replacement instead:
> 
> gtk-dialog.c: 649
>   gtk_entry_set_text(GTK_ENTRY(entry), _(""));
> 
> gtk-dialog.c: 557
>   gtk_entry_set_text(GTK_ENTRY(entry), _(""));
> 
> http://data.mmsources.de/pidgin-otr3.2-localization.png
> 
> 
> Also, these two entries are not yet localized by gettext:
> 
> 
> gtk-dialog.c: 638
> label_text = g_strdup_printf("Enter secret here:");
> 
> gtk-dialog.c: 500
> label_text = g_strdup_printf("Enter question here:");

Fixed, thanks!

> Please inform me when you changed this and if you change any more 
> strings before release, so i can keep the translation up-to-date . I'm 
> also subscribed to this mailing list.

The ongoing discussions about the authentication dialog will almost
certainly produce some new strings to be translated, so keep an eye on
this list.

   - Ian



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