text not translated on the UI, while it is translated in the PO

[Charles Day]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> Quoting zhangweiwu at realss.com:
>
> > Derek Atkins wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Quoting Zhang Weiwu <zhangweiwu at realss.com>:
> >>
> >>> sorry for having a new translator's question. This is my first trial to
> >>> correct translation on gnome software.
> >>>
> >>> I found the word "Total Credits", "Total Debits" and "Net Change" was
> >>> not translated to Chinese when locale was zh_CN.UTF-8 (I compiled from
> >>> 2.2.7 source myself). See the screenshot attached. First I thought
> >>> someone overlooked the phrases, because all other parts are translated
> >>> fine. Then I use gtranslator to work on zh_CN.po and found it is
> >>> translated in the po, like in the screenshot. Then I don't know how to
> >>> make it also Chinese on the UI.
> >>>
> >>> I wonder is there something wrong in the source code that makes these 3
> >>> particular phrases not translated? Because they are the only cases so
> >>> far with missing translation on zh_CN.
> >>
> >> Which report is this?
> > Account Report has this problem. Others probably also.
>
> Very odd.  That string certainly looks translated in the scheme source.
> It could be a bug in the po file.  But in the report (register.scm)
> the only place where the string "Total Credits" is used is in a translated
> string:
>
> ./src/report/standard-reports/register.scm:             (add-subtotal-row
> (_
> "Total Credits") leader table used-columns
>
> So this string should be translated.
>
> >> Also, the About Box appears untranslated, too!
> > Oh was it supposed to be translated? I thought it was intentionally:)
>
> I would have expected it to be, but I don't know.
>

Just a shot in the dark... could this have anything to do with the "#,
fuzzy" line in the po file? Probably not but I thought I would throw it out
there. All four untranslated strings that I see here have that line in
common.


> -derek
>
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>
-Charles