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gettext: escape single quotes... and other goodies [SOLVED]
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Argolance


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PostPosted: Thu 31 Jan 2013, 10:31    Post subject:  gettext: escape single quotes... and other goodies [SOLVED]  
Hello,
Using gettext, this works:
Quote:
<text><label>$(gettext 'I know')</label></text>

But this doesn't:
Quote:
<text><label>$(gettext 'I don't know')</label></text>
It is not the first time I encounter this problem. So far, I was used to get around the problem by writing:
Quote:
<text><label>$(gettext 'I do not know')</label></text>
or
Quote:
<text><label>$(gettext "I don't know ")</label></text>
I would rather like to know if there is any character which could let me escape single quotes inside a chain?

Thank you!
Cordialement.
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postfs1


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PostPosted: Thu 31 Jan 2013, 10:59    Post subject:  
BASH wrote:

Code:

echo 'I don'"'"'t know'


OUTPUT IN BASH wrote:

I don't know



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PostPosted: Thu 31 Jan 2013, 11:49    Post subject:  
Hello postfs1,
Very Happy Very Happy
Thank you!

Cordialement.
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don570


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PostPosted: Sat 02 Feb 2013, 17:02    Post subject:  
Another solution...

utf-8 characters i.e. unicode has other quote characters
available to users.

I open up Abiword and go to the top menu

Insert > symbol

and find another quote symbol in dejavu font.

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PostPosted: Sun 03 Feb 2013, 06:45    Post subject:  
Thanks!
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PostPosted: Tue 05 Feb 2013, 18:22    Post subject: apostrophe in gettext  
I've been experimenting using pupmd5sum.sh

As an example I try to make a button label showing 'John's message'
This was able to work...

Code:

<button>
     <label>'"$(gettext "John's message")"'</label>
     <action>checkfunc '"$ENT1"'</action>
     <action type="refresh">ENT2</action>
</button>






BTN1=$(gettext 'John's message')
resulted in an error
unexpected EOF while looking for matching `)'
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PostPosted: Wed 06 Feb 2013, 06:28    Post subject: Re: apostrophe in gettext  
don570 wrote:

Also I could do a substitution like this...

First define variable ABC

ABC="John's message"

then BTN1 becomes...
BTN1=$(gettext "$ABC")


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Did translation work Question

If so forget eval_gettext
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PostPosted: Thu 07 Feb 2013, 15:06    Post subject:  
L18L wrote:
Did translation work?


That's a good question? I was just trying the English.

When I translated build_gettext I found that the English would work and
the translations into German and French wouldn't work. So I should have
known better Embarassed

I'll take the time to test thoroughly and report back on Saturday.
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PostPosted: Sat 09 Feb 2013, 14:55    Post subject:  
When I made a fresh frugal install of precise the launch speed
of MoManager was much faster (35 seconds) , but now it has slowed
down again after I installed a few scripts.

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I have found that yaf-splash can be tricky to gettext properly.

Code:
yaf-splash -close box -fontsize large -bg orange -fb black -text  " $(gettext 'Sorry.  'devx' file must be loaded.')"


works properly when typed in the terminal and in English,
but the strong quotes confuse Momanager so that a German translation
is impossible, but change the outer quotes to double(as shown below)
will make the script translate properly with MoManager.

Code:
yaf-splash -close box -fontsize large -bg orange -fb black -text  " $(gettext "Sorry.  'devx' file must be loaded.")"


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PostPosted: Sat 09 Feb 2013, 15:15    Post subject:  
I checked the button labels with a German translation with MoManager.


This works for a button
<label>'$(gettext "Jim's text")'</label>

This won't work
<label>"$(gettext "Jim's text")"</label>

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Then I checked an assigned variable inside the gettext expression...
I did translations into German --> expressions with an apostrophe.



This works
<label>'"$BTN1"'</label>

and this works
<label>'$BTN1'</label>

Here was the output in German language



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This didn't work
<label>"$BTN1"</label>


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PostPosted: Mon 11 Feb 2013, 19:18    Post subject: multiple lines of translated text in a yaf-splash window  
The only method I found to place multiple lines of translated text in
a yaf-splash window....

Breakup a large amount ot text into lines of text.
Text can have apostrophe.


Code:
TEXT1=$(gettext ".......")
TEXT2=$(gettext ".......")
TEXT3=$(gettext ".......")
TEXT4=$(gettext ".......")


Then invoke yaf-splash with the code

Code:

yaf-splash -close box -fontsize large -bg orange -fb black -text  " $TEXT1
$TEXT2
$TEXT3
$TEXT4
"


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PostPosted: Mon 11 Feb 2013, 19:57    Post subject:  
Xdialog was more flexible than yaf-splash. Breaking the text into lines
can also be used with Xdialog, however the following method using \\n
is more useful....

Note: two Escapes \\ should be used (one Escape \ is possible
but should be avoided)

Code:
TEXT1=$(gettext "John's text \\nSecond line\\nThird line")
Xdialog  --ok-label "OK" --backtitle "\n  $TEXT1 \n "  --msgbox  "" 0 0


Here is a sample of the output of Poedit. (Note the double 'Escapes')



And here is the final output in English first then German




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PostPosted: Mon 11 Feb 2013, 20:07    Post subject:  
Some notes about Xdialog

1) left justification option ( --left) makes a large amount
of text look neater

2) Geometry of 0 0 forces the size of the window to resize to
fit the text.

3) Warning: Lines of Foreign language text are often longer than English.

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PostPosted: Mon 11 Feb 2013, 20:18    Post subject:  
I tested eval_gettext using the instructions HERE

you must put the following line before evoking eval_gettext

Code:
. gettext.sh


A variable contains the output of a command. Here's the example...

Code:
filecount="`ls | wc -l`"
eval_gettext "Remaining files: \$filecount"; echo


Now that the script is ready for translation , switch to German with
country Wizard , and run Momanager/Poedit.



You can now do the translation into German.

Run script in terminal, and here is output...
(script_name is pupmd5sum5.sh)





In the terminal
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PostPosted: Wed 13 Feb 2013, 07:42    Post subject:  
Hello,
I didn't see your posts before although "Notify me when a reply is posted" was checked. Confused
Very interesting!
But "gettexting" a script (using different xxxmessage inside) is finally complex to handle... As you walked around the problem, this thread became a very useful "tutorial"... Very Happy
Thank you.

Cordialement.
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