French translation

[matcauthron]

Right now tt-rss has no French translation. I see that it uses a gettext mechanism, which I'm alreadly familiar with. So two questions:

- I volunteer for this translation. Is it OK?
- Which character encoding must I use for the .po file? UTF-8?

[fox]

- I volunteer for this translation. Is it OK?

Not just OK, this is great!

- Which character encoding must I use for the .po file? UTF-8?

Yep, UTF-8.

You can get the latest trunk .pot file here to get you started.

[matcauthron]

OK, I've got it. 319 strings, it'll be a quick work compared to other projects I did previously.

I found your email address in the README, I'll send it to you soon.

[matcauthron]

I've just finished the first draft. Only the translations about labels must be a bit approximative, since I didn't enable that feature.

Problem is, I can't test it. TT-RSS stubbornly stays in English.

I switched ENABLE_TRANSLATIONS to true in config.php, created fr_FR/LC_MESSAGES folders in locale/ and copied my messages.mo file in it.

My browsers are of course configured to request a French translation if one is available.

I tried to give other names to the localization folder : fr, FR, fr-fr... No matter.

Oh, and I'm sure that my PHP has gettext support, since I use it for other web apps installed.

[fox]

Hmmm... should have worked at least with fr. Are you sure you didn't forget to compile your translated .po file into binary .mo? Try running update-translations.sh.

I could have broken the translation system, tho. I'll try to drink about it (yay, friday!) later today.

Another thing - tt-rss doesn't use PHP's native gettext, it has php-native implementation in gettext/.

[fox]

Another thing, just tested with

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user_pref("camino.accept_languages", "ru,ru-RU,en,en-US");


At least, russian translation worked.

[matcauthron]

Nope. I hadn't forgotten to generate the .mo file (I did it by hand with msgfmt, as usual). Nevertheless I tried your update-translations.sh script, it doesn't change anything.

I left two French folders in locale/ : fr_Fr (the correct one) and fr (as a fallback).

I ran your test with Camino, with fr then ru... I get the page in Russian, so French is skipped.

I'm pretty sure than my .mo file is correct, since 1) I've done this a lot before and 2) your script generates the same .mo as I did. The permissions on the web server are identical for Russian and French...

Right now I have no idea what's wrong. I'll try to figure something out... Do you have a couple of minutes to try from your side? If yes, I can send you the .po file.

[fox]

Sure thing, just mail it to me.

[fox]

Aha! I'm an idiot: look at functions.php:18.

[matcauthron]

Thank you. It's on its way.

[matcauthron]

Aha! I'm an idiot: look at functions.php:18.

That explains something. I'll modify it and try again.

Edit: now it works!! I'm proofreading my translations now.

[fox]

Just change the aforementioned line, e.g.:

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$lang = al2gt(array("en_US", "ru_RU", "fr_FR", "zh_CN"), "text/html");


It should fix it.

[matcauthron]

To complete the thread: yes, modifying functions.php indeed works. Translation is now on the way.

[fox]

heads up: I've fixed a lot of missing translations you noticed, if would be great if you take a look at updated .po file

http://madoka.spb.ru/~fox/testbox/tt-rs ... essages.po

There is one small problem, tho, when translations are used for javascript popups:

[matcauthron]

OK, that means no HTML entity in the popups. I'll correct that.

I'm not sure I'll have to time to change the translations before monday, but I'll do my best.