Here's the response I got from the StackOverflow question from a member
of Google's Developer Relations team:
Internationalization in the Data API v3 is something YT started supporting
recently, and it's limited now. But there is a work going on to bring this
support to the all functionalities
So there seem to be 2 issues here:
- Missing translatable strings: might be either because they're not marked for
translation in the code, or because the .pot file is not up-to-date
- Translations not committed: (and perhaps not shipped). Someone with
permissions needs to:
1. Go to
** Changed in: unity-scope-youtube (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Triaged
** Changed in: unity-scope-youtube (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided = High
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** Tags added: touch-2014-10-16
** Changed in: unity-scope-youtube (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) = James Henstridge (jamesh)
** Tags removed: touch-2014-10-16
** Tags added: touch-2014-10-30
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Note that these strings don't appear in the PO template because they
don't actually exist in the source code: they are provided by the
YouTube API.
So the bug is either (a) we aren't correctly passing locale information
to the YouTube API, or (b) YouTube is not providing localised names for
these
So I've dug a bit further into this problem. I've confirmed that the
untranslated strings are coming from the API rather than embedded in the
scope, so it isn't a simple matter of adding some gettext() calls and
rerunning make pot.
The department list is determined by a call to the
I'm not having much luck after playing around with the API. The
channels list operation ignores the hl parameter if you pass it in.
The Accept-Language HTTP request header doesn't alter the response
either.
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Localized category lists:
https://developers.google.com/youtube/2.0/reference#Localized_Category_Lists
«You can also retrieve localized category lists that specify category
labels for classifying video content in particular languages. You can
download these lists from
Note that that is for the deprecated 2.0 API, which we aren't using.
The equivalent v3 API would be either the guideCategories.list API we
are using, or possibly videoCategories.list: both of which support
localisation as I described above (and clearly visible in the
departments list of the
The YouTube developers site points at StackOverflow for its Ask a
Question link, so I've done that here:
http://stackoverflow.com/q/26133830/721283
I also found a low quality bug report from about a year ago that seems
to be describing the same issue: https://code.google.com/p/gdata-
Actually there may be a bug in unity-scope-youtube since for example
Popular on YouTube does not appear for translation in
https://translations.launchpad.net/unity-scope-youtube
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Nothing to do with unity8, I don't even think it's a unity-scope-youtube
bug, simply there are no translations to Spanish in
https://translations.launchpad.net/unity-scope-youtube
** Also affects: unity-scope-youtube (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: unity8
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