Launchpad itself

Missing format specification in translation string should render error message.

Bug #74433 reported by Diogo Matsubara
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Bug Description

Steps to reproduce (using sample data):
1. Open http://translations.launchpad.dev/distros/ubuntu/hoary/+source/pmount/+pots/pmount/pt_BR/+translate?start=10
2. For the string "Error: invalid charset name '%s'" enter "foo" as the translation;
3. Click Save & continue;
4. You're redirected to the next translation page while you should have received an error message.

The error message should complain about the missing format specification.

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Данило Шеган (danilo) wrote :

Note that it doesn't check for starting/ending whitespace either (which is also the syntax error).

So, I think this bug is basically about enabling per-string syntax checking on save, but I am setting it as 'wishlist' at the moment.

Changed in rosetta:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

I would like to see the importance of this raised, I got:
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-support-ar/+bug/277902

today and had quite a few of those in the past. I wrote my own validator because its such a common problem, especially for ngettext() usage.

Thanks,
 Michael

Shahar Or (mightyiam)
tags: added: hebrew
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Данило Шеган (danilo) wrote :

We do support this if the template has appropriate c-format or python-format flags (i.e. check that msgfmt catches an error, and if it does, Launchpad will too).

tags: removed: hebrew
Changed in rosetta:
status: Triaged → Invalid
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Michael Rooney (mrooney) wrote :

This is a bit delayed but Michael, you shouldn't need to write your own validator; running msgfmt with the -c option should catch that.

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