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Guys, the problem is exactly where @marcio-batista stated.

You can download the fixed pt_BR translation file on my website:

http://tecnotara.com/wp-content/languages/buddypress-pt_BR.mo
http://tecnotara.com/wp-content/languages/buddypress-pt_BR.po

I fixed the translation on GlotPress also, but it’s waiting approval:

https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/buddypress/dev/pt-br/default

Thanks for replying, Marcio.

Pinging @djpaul so he is aware of this as he’s the de-facto translation wrangler!

@marcio-batista – Which translation is causing this problem?

User error mention corrected!
“Warning: sprintf() [function.sprintf]: Too few arguments in
…/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-activity/bp-activity-notifications.php on line 95”

The problem is that the error is the translation.
1= To check, remove translation of his country.
2= Back BuddyPress original translation.
3=Try a mention again.
4= If it does not error, returns translation of his country.
5= Look at this line in the file. Po translation: “%1$s mentioned you in an update:\n\n\”%2$s\”\n\nTo view and respond to the message, log in and visit: %3$s\n\n———————”
Compare with the translation of his country. Mine was wrong. And now shines BuddyPress!

Greetings to all!

Chouf1, thanks for following me on this topic… Not sure what I’m doing wrong here.. I updated to BP 1.7 stable (I’m also running latest WP), did some tests with notifications and am still get the & amp ; in just the display name of the email (subject is still fine). I reversed the translations that I did in the language files for site name to add & amp ; to no avail… One thing I didn’t try is add a translation to just Name & Name – I’ll try that now.

Regarding your question, I’ve tried to add & amp ; to the site title in general settings and it’s always converted to just &. In the source, it’s output as & amp ;. Not sure how to proceed to fix.. I’ll try the above-

chouf1 – thanks for the info. I added a translation as you suggested (with &), but still have no luck. These emails are being generated by the notification area of buddy press 1.7 beta 1. The name has the & but the subject does not – i.e.:

from email@email.com
subject name & name comes through just fine

So, it’s only happening in the from name, and is not consistent – I assume it’s using the same field as site name?

Thanks, Jon

@johnnyjonjon,

When untranslated, obviously, an apostrophe is the same as a single quote, and primes are either a double quote or a single quote. And, when texturized, an apostrophe uses the same HTML entity (& 8 217 ; – without space) as a closing single quote. You may have a desire to translate these, or there may be no need to. That’s fine.
source: https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/important-changes-for-wordpress-3-4/

Translation of email message must be writen normally.

in a php string, what’s new should be written what & # 39; s new (without space) (iso latin-1)
the ampersanded company name in the po file should be: A & a m p; M(without space)

in a email message (and only in email message), you write what’s new or A&M

BP use UTF8 charset by default and XML transitionnal encoding

That’ said, some mail reader’s convert  html entities into what?new or what â € ™ s. In such case you have to check your mail software or browser settings.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_encodings_in_HTML
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/sgml/entities.html
http://www.utexas.edu/learn/html/spchar.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miscellaneous_Symbols

chouf1 has already explained this to you.

”
Po file is for translating. It’s a working file.

Mo file is for translation throught php gettext. Only the mo is mandatory, not the po or the pot
Once you finish the translation of a po file, you need to compile it to mo format with poEdit. (or equivalent tool)
”

Editing the po does nothing until you use it to create a mo file.
Do yourself a favor – get poEdit. It’s free and very easy to use.

@fernon

again:
Probably because you don’t the right thing to translate.
You edit with which tool ?

Give a name please….
There are several tools and i have no time to loose to search about basic infos YOU can provide.
Anyway i wouldn’t trust online translation plugins. Preferably use poEdit on local and transfer your po/mo by FTP

When I translate wordpress and the theme by itself it works.This is a bad reason !

In french we say: five minutes before he died, he was alive. If i apply what you say, you will ask: why did he die, he was alive 5 minutes ago ?

Nothing is written in marble, except tombstones 😉

Probably because you don’t the right thing to translate.
You edit with which tool ?

@fernon

buddypress-nl_NL.mo must be in wp-content/languages

Po file is for translating. It’s a working file.

Mo file is for  translation throught php gettext. Only the mo is mandatory, not the po or the pot
Once you finish the translation of a po file, you need to compile it to mo format with poEdit. (or equivalent tool)

May not be pertinent, but what does your wp-config file say re this setting:

`define(‘WPLANG’, ”);`

@naturalworldstm

i didn’t say “except” buddupress-es_ES !
i said
check the languages folder witch must contain the following files:

buddypress.mo

And WP’s default translation files:
[file list]

@naturalworldstm,

can you give a site URL please ? Also do you use BP on a multisite or on a single WP ? What PHP version do you use ? And does your host provide gettext with PHP. ?
https://codex.wordpress.org/User:Ipstenu/How_to_create_a_phpinfo%28%29_page

Basically, the %s ago thing is a wordpress function – also used by BP on the activity time. If you already checked the BP part, and it seems ok according what you say above, i don’t know what happens so far.
This issue could be a mistake from the translator or something else directly handled by WordPress.

If you’re using WP 3.5.1, check the languages folder witch must contain the following files:

buddypress.mo

And WP’s default translation files:
es_ES.mo (for WP in spanish)
admin-es_ES.mo (dashboard)
admin-network-es_ES.mo (network dashboard)
continents-cities-es_ES.mo (a list of cities in your language, used for date/time setting in dashboard, not mandatory)

If you use bbPress 2.2.x, there should also being a folder /bbPress/ containing bbress-es_ES.mo

In wp-config.php you must have a line saying
define(”WPLANG’, ‘es_ES’);

If you use WP MS, you also have to set the network to your language in the Network Settings.

If you use a third party theme, it may contain his own /languages/ or /lang/ folder with a pot file at least. This file must be used to translate the theme.The theme translation mo file should be in this folder.

Some themes are sometimes delivered with .mo files. Unfortunatly, those additionnal mo files are rarely updated. So if the theme has a es_ES.mo or theme-es_ES.mo, you can use the pot file to check or update the theme  translation. In fact, in such case, the only file in witch you can trust, is the pot file. It also can be that the pot is not updated too, which means you have to recreate it from start, with a compiler such as poEdit….

This rule is also valuable for plugins.

At this point, i suspect a corrupted WP file. To eliminate this possibility, i would try the following.

Delete the whole wp-includes folder and upload a fresh copy of 3.5.1 via FTP
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/23897/tags/3.5.1?old_path=%2F&format=zip

If you use a previous version, go here:
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags

Don’t use the right click to download something from Trac repo. Always click first on the file or folder name, and use the download button at the bottom of that page.

ola @naturalworldstm,

do you use bp-media or bp-album ? Verify that you have the translation file for it.

!important concern only css, and x days ago translation has nothing to do with css.

Hi @djpaul,

Does uses 1.7-beta1 bp-custom.php for slug translation?

– My bp-custom.php working correctly in 1.6.4 BP but not working correctly in 1.7-beta1.

These slugs are translated just for user profile, not group profile. It is OK?

define ( ‘BP_MEMBERS_SLUG’, ‘clenove’ );

define ( ‘BP_FORUMS_SLUG’, ‘klubovna’ );

Thanks for idea, help.

Dear Moderators,
Please do/fix this in the next releases. I also wanted to change Group to something that reads in my language (though the string ‘Group’ is in .po and .mo files and translated, it is still in English on Dashboard). How great it would have been if i was easily able to change them?
I’ve been wrestling this issue for several weeks and now trying to hire someone who can hack it and insert the translation.
Thank you guys.