Topic: Problems with sprintf in translation

Problems with sprintf in translation

Bloggsbe
Participant

@bloggsbe

14 years, 12 months ago

Hi all, and congrats on the 1.0 milestone!

I’ve translated the 1.0 into Norwegian, but I have a problem with translation of text that starts in the code with sprintf( __('%s created the group %s', 'buddypress'), $u.......

That text is not translated. The translation is there (in the .mo file) and everything else is translated just fine.

Does anyone have an idea on what’s going on?

Regards,

RuneG

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Arturo
Participant

@arturo84

14 years, 12 months ago

i’m a member of BP Italy and i’ve translated the 1.0 pot file and all is ok the string “… %s created the group %s..” is translated… do you have used the .pot file in the 1.0 zip file?
Paul Wong-Gibbs
Keymaster

@djpaul

14 years, 12 months ago
bp-groups.php line 1005, right?
```
'content' => apply_filters( 'bp_groups_created_group_activity', sprintf( __('%s created the group %s', 'buddypress'), $user_link, '<a href="' . $group_link . '">' . $group->name . '</a>') . ' <span class="time-since">%s</span>', $user_link, $group_link, $group->name )
```
As Arturo’s suggested, check you are working from the .pot file that comes with 1.0. It’s possible it was changed since an older version thus your translation not being applied.
Bloggsbe
Participant

@bloggsbe

14 years, 12 months ago

@DJPaul

Yes, that’s the one, and 1019, 1043 in the same file and everywhere there is sprintf ( __(.......

And yes, it’s the .pot from the 1.0 zip.

Regards,

RuneG

Paul Wong-Gibbs
Keymaster

@djpaul

14 years, 12 months ago

It looks like it *should* work. Guess we’ll have to wait to here from someone else who has done a translation if they get the problem.

Bloggsbe
Participant

@bloggsbe

14 years, 12 months ago

Yea, I know. It _should_ work. But noooo

It’s probably an easy answer to it. I just don’t see it…

Hope someone can give me some hints on what’s causing this. Thanks for your suggestions DJPaul and Arturo!

Regards,

RuneG

Bloggsbe
Participant

@bloggsbe

14 years, 12 months ago

Ahhh, I found the error…

Some of the things I\’ve done on my installation was done before I translated and uploaded the .mo file.

When you do an activity, let\’s say you write on a group wire. The whole thing including the text wrote on the wire of the group is stored in the DB (in the table wp_bp_activity_sitewide), and thus if you change the language that will not change…

But when you do something new, then the correct language is shown (and stored in the DB).

So changing the language after you\’ve done something in your BuddyPress install is not a good idea

Regards,

RuneG

Paul Wong-Gibbs
Keymaster

@djpaul

14 years, 12 months ago

Ralev
Participant

@ralev

14 years, 11 months ago

I’m experiencing the same problem.

It’s with a few strings that are translated in the PO file, but do not appear correct.

“created the group”

“updated the”

“created a new blog:”

“wrote a new blog post:”

.. and may be more I can not catch at this moment.

These strings are from the site-wire activity and appear in the INDEX , as well in other pages.. and.. they are pretty key to the user experience.. so it will be nice if there’s a solution on the horizon

Bloggsbe
Participant

@bloggsbe

14 years, 11 months ago

The only solution as far as I know is to edit the DB via PHPMyAdmin (or something similar).

I’ve also seen one more problem with the way BuddyPress stores the activity. If you edit, let’s say, a comment just after you’ve written it, it will show up as two comments in the same DB table, and thus show up two times in the wire widget. And three times if you edit it three times…

I think it should be possible to edit the DB instead of inserting the same information several times.

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RuneG