French translation of Report a Person page, shows incorrect message

[Chanaka]

1. Navigate to Report a Person page.
2. Select french language.
3. Page shows the message "Vous pouvez effectuer une recherche href="search"> avant de reporting. Dans le cas contraire ...".

The french message contains additional part "href="search">" which is a part of html codes. This html related part should not be displayed in the message.

[praful94]

1. I went to http://localhost/vesuvius/vesuvius/www/test/report
2. I didn't find any option for "select" language, so I translated to "french" using google translate, but I didn't find any mistake as stated above.
3. Can you describe a little bit more about the above stated problem?

[ramdesh]

You need to enable locale first in sahana.conf. This will give you a dropdown to change the locale.

[Chanaka]

Make $conf['enable_locale'] = true; in sahana.conf file. Default value is false https://github.com/sahana/vesuvius/blob/master/vesuvius/conf/sahana.conf.example#L50

[praful94]

In the file /vesuvius/vesuvius/mod/report/main.inc, on this particular line
"_t('ReportAPerson-QuickSearch-Link|You may wish to perform a quick search before reporting. Otherwise...') "
If I change anything in the string passed to _t function, then it doesn't get translated to french or any other language. e.g. If I omit the word "perform" from the passed string, the whole string don't get translated to any other language. Please, can you explain this?

I tried to understand the whole "translation" process, but after _gettext() function in "/vesuvius/vesuvius/inc/lib_locale/gettext.inc" file, I am not able to understand the translation process as why omitting a word results in "non translating" behaviour.

[praful94]

Fixed the issue.

[ramdesh]

@praful94, to respond to your earlier query, the translation framework takes exact strings as they are and translates them. If you change a string, you need to regenerate the sahana.pot file and then propagate the change to each *.po file via Pootle, which is our translation platform.

[ramdesh]

@Chanaka this is not an issue related specifically to the French translation. It is related to how the sahana.pot file is generated and the actual string which has been placed within the _t() function.

[praful94]

yeah, I understood that by looking at .po and .pog files, that's why I changed hyperlinks(anchor tags) in fr_g.pog and ja_g.pog and then compiled fr_g.mo and ja_g.mo for changes to take effect.

[vidurangaw]

Hi,
I have fixed the issue. Can you check if it's correct
#58
Thanks