Hello

To fix the bug, validate the translated string and use the English one if
necessary.

I think this should always be done when translations have the potential to
crash the application, particularly in complex cases like this.

Best regards
Ask
El 01/06/2016 08:52, "Baurzhan Muftakhidinov" <baurthefi...@gmail.com>
escribió:

> Hi,
>
> Mark those messages as fuzzy, and then ask translators to revisit them,
>
> Regards.
>
> On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 11:47 AM, Michael Gratton <m...@vee.net> wrote:
> >
> > Hi gnome-i18n,
> >
> > Recently in Geary a search feature was added where people could write a
> > searches such as "is:unread" and have it find all unread messages, also
> > "is:read" and "is:starred". This is implemented by parsing the string
> > separately, i.e. "is:read" is parsed as two separate strings, "is" and
> > "read". Obviously these strings were marked for translation in the code
> so
> > people can use their preferred language, but unfortunately we did not add
> > any comments about the requirements for these (they should ideally be
> short,
> > and must be a single word, or use '_' or '-' to separate words) and so a
> > number were translated as plain phrases instead.
> >
> > I have gone back and added comments for each string so it is hopefully
> more
> > clear what the translation requirements are, but what's the best
> approach to
> > get these problematic strings fixed? Should I replace them with empty
> > strings in the PO files in the git repo so they appear untranslated or
> > should I just ask the translation teams to revisit them?
> >
> > The strings affected are those from both the master and geary-0.11
> branches,
> > in the UI source file "imap-db-account.vala" and ideally should also be
> > translated in the User Guide file "search.page" so that people know what
> the
> > correct syntax is.
> >
> > Since this is related to a crasher bug, I'd like to release 0.11.1
> sometime
> > next week, so it would be great to have the geary-0.11 branch updated
> before
> > then at least.
> >
> > //Mike
> >
> > --
> > ⊨ Michael Gratton, Percept Wrangler.
> > ⚙ <http://mjog.vee.net/>
> >
> >
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