Re: Translation: Where some problems come from Re: Problematic strings in code

[Luis Falcon]

Hi Francisco!

On Sun, 12 Apr 2020 14:23:40 +0200
Francisco Vila <address@hidden> wrote:

> El 11/4/20 a las 19:51, Francisco Vila escribió:
> > While translating, I've found some strings problematic or
> > untranslatable. I could do a fragile/volatile translation but my
> > idea was to try fixing the code instead.  
> I understand i18n or translation are not "priority zero" at present
> time. But every person does what he can.
> 
> It has been hard to track where these strange strings come from, as
> they are not in the code as such:
> 
>    tryton/health/locale/health.pot:
> 
>    msgctxt "report:gnuhealth.immunization_status_report:"
>    msgid "P"
> 
>    msgctxt "report:gnuhealth.immunization_status_report:"
>    msgid "atient age"
> 
>    msgctxt "report:gnuhealth.immunization_status_report:"
>    msgid "the i"
> 
>    msgctxt "report:gnuhealth.immunization_status_report:"
>    msgid "mmunization status corresponding to the"
> 
> et cetera.
> 
> These come from an odt document and can only be searched in the
> content.xml inside it:
> 
>    <text:p text:style-name="P32">
>    <text:span text:style-name="T7">P</text:span>
>    <text:span text:style-name="T8">atient age</text:span>
>    <text:span text:style-name="T14"> :</text:span>
> 
>    <text:span text:style-name="T13"> the i</text:span>
>    mmunization status corresponding to the
> 
>  From the actual look of the document (see attached), one can say
> there is no reason for those useless word-splitting character-span
> styles and therefore they should be eliminated.
> 
> You can also see this (and some similar ones) is where many
> ortho-typographic errors come from, like inserted spaces before a
> colon. This is not proper English and causes problems for translators.
> 
> I could in theory craft an ODT 'surgically' modified by editing the
> content.xml itself, but I don't know if it is the best way.
> 
> Any suggestions?

Have you checked the actual ODT file related to the report itself?

Best
Luis