From yaohan.chen at gmail.com  Mon Jun  2 19:34:09 2008
From: yaohan.chen at gmail.com (Yaohan Chen)
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 19:34:09 -0400
Subject: [gettext-u-en] Utility to semi-automatically add _( ) to ruby files
Message-ID: <200806021934.10260.yaohan.chen@gmail.com>

Hello,

I find putting _( ) around strings in already written ruby programs a tedious 
process, so I wrote a program to help me do it.

"texter" looks for strings enclosed in ' ' or " " in the input file, displays 
each string highlighted in the middle of its surrounding text, and asks you 
whether to put _( ) around it. If the string contains embedded expressions 
like "hello #{name}", it rewrites it as _("hello %{name}") % {:name => name}, 
after asking you to specify the label for the expression. It then also asks 
you whether to parenthesize this expression, to avoid parsing error.

As you probably suspect, texter isn't able to deal with all Ruby syntax 
correctly yet. Currently it does not consider %( ), here-doc as strings, and 
quotes inside them as well as regexp are treated as string delimiters. 
However, it is still in development; I would be grateful if you try it, give 
feedback or contribute.

http://github.com/hagabaka/texter/tree
git://github.com/hagabaka/texter.git


Yaohan Chen

From yaohan.chen at gmail.com  Thu Jun  5 18:13:55 2008
From: yaohan.chen at gmail.com (Yaohan Chen)
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 18:13:55 -0400
Subject: [gettext-u-en] empty output from msgmerge should not be interpreted
	as error
Message-ID: <200806051813.56222.yaohan.chen@gmail.com>

Hello,

I noticed that if a ruby file has no translatable strings, and a pot file is 
created from it, then running update_pofiles again will cause an error with 
such output:

  po/file.pot
  . done.
  Failed to merge with po/file.pot
  New .pot was copied to tmp.pot~
  Check these po/pot-files. It may have syntax errors or something wrong.

The cause of this is that GNU gettext's msgmerge (0.17) seems to never output 
anything when the def.po and ref.pot files are identical. But if you supply a 
switch -o output.po, the output.po file will be untouched. Also msgmerge 
prints ". done." in stderr as usually, without any error message. I think 
this suggests that empty output from msgmerge does not indicate an error in 
the pot file, only that no change is needed.

Following is my proposed patch.


? msgmerge-empty-output.diff
Index: lib/gettext/utils.rb
===================================================================
RCS file: /var/cvs/gettext/gettext/lib/gettext/utils.rb,v
retrieving revision 1.7
diff -u -r1.7 utils.rb
--- lib/gettext/utils.rb	6 May 2008 17:36:43 -0000	1.7
+++ lib/gettext/utils.rb	5 Jun 2008 22:06:54 -0000
@@ -60,13 +60,14 @@
 	cont = io.read
       end
     end
-    if cont.empty?
+    unless $?.success?
       failed_filename = refpo + "~"
       FileUtils.cp(refpo, failed_filename)
       $stderr.puts _("Failed to merge with %{defpo}") % {:defpo => defpo}
       $stderr.puts _("New .pot was copied 
to %{failed_filename}") %{:failed_filename => failed_filename}
       raise _("Check these po/pot-files. It may have syntax errors or 
something wrong.")
     else
+      cont = File.read(defpo) if cont.empty?
       cont.sub!(/(Project-Id-Version\:).*$/, "\\1 #{app_version}\\n\"")
       File.open(defpo, "w") do |out|
         out.write(cont)

From sabrebox2000-code at yahoo.com.sg  Mon Jun  9 06:59:21 2008
From: sabrebox2000-code at yahoo.com.sg (Sean Tan)
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:59:21 +0800
Subject: [gettext-u-en] Untranslated text appears under heavy load
In-Reply-To: <200806051813.56222.yaohan.chen@gmail.com>
References: <200806051813.56222.yaohan.chen@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <484D0D09.20706@yahoo.com.sg>

Hi,

I'm currently using Rails 2.0.2 and gettext gems 1.91.0.

I'm currently experiencing issues with my website when the load is 
higher. Random untranslated text appears on the page. It is not the 
entire page that is untranslated, only 1 part or 2. And the parts are 
random and it happens through out the website.

Most of the time, upon refreshing the page, the page becomes fully 
translated again.

I added the following to my app to enable gettext. Previously when I'm 
using Rails 1.2.6 and gettext 1.10.0, there are no such issues.
--------
environment.rb
  require 'gettext/rails'

application.rb
class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
  before_init_gettext :set_my_locale
  init_gettext 'gameportal'


  def set_my_locale(new_locale = nil)
    locale = new_locale || params["locale"] || cookies[:locale] || 'en_US'
    @locale = LOCALES_FETCH.from_key(locale).nil? ?
              LOCALES_FETCH.default_locale : locale
    cookies[:locale] = @locale
    set_locale(@locale)
  end

end
--------
Can anyone help me? Thank you very much!

--
Sean