Bug 2012 – Nyquist plug-in translations broken when string includes format specifiers

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Bug 2012 - Nyquist plug-in translations broken when string includes format specifiers


Summary:	Nyquist plug-in translations broken when string includes format specifiers

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Product:	Audacity
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	User Interface
Version:	2.3.1
Hardware:	Per OS All

Importance:	P3 RepeatableAll
Assigned To:	Default Assignee for New Bugs

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Reported:	2018-10-21 16:09 UTC by Steve Daulton
Modified:	2021-01-29 11:47 UTC (History)
CC List:	6 users (show)

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Steps To Reproduce:	With the locale set to a language that is 100% translated, apply the "High Pass Filter" effect to a 8000Hz sample rate track and the filter frequency set to 5000 Hz. The error message should be a translated version of: "Error: Frequency (5000 Hz) is too high for track sample rate. Track sample rate is 8000 Hz Frequency must be less than 4000 Hz."
Release Note:	Localization: Most multi-line strings in Nyquist plug-ins appear in English only.
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Closed:	2021-01-29 00:00:00

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German translation (166.05 KB, image/png) 2021-01-28 20:55 UTC, Leland Lucius	Details
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Description Steve Daulton 2018-10-21 16:09:53 UTC

Most of the multi-line strings in Nyquist plug-ins are not translated (they appear in English), even when there is a translation for them.

Several format specifiers are listed here: http://www.audacity-forum.de/download/edgar/nyquist/nyquist-doc/xlisp/xlisp-ref/xlisp-ref-121.htm

Known to cause problems:

The tilde character at the end of a line should continue the 'format' string on the next line, ignoring all leading white-space on the new line.
The leading whitespace breaks the translation.

Escaped characters, such as "\t" appear to lose their backslash.

Comment 1 Leland Lucius 2021-01-28 20:55:24 UTC

Created attachment 1068 [details]
German translation

Steve, is this working now? I tried German and it appears to be fixed for me.

Comment 2 Steve Daulton 2021-01-29 11:47:16 UTC

I'm not able to test all format specifiers, but "~%" and "~<newline>" are now working correctly. As that is the primary problem described in the bug description,I'm closing this as "Fixed".

I have not tested backslash escaped characters (https://www.audacity-forum.de/download/edgar/nyquist/nyquist-doc/xlisp/xlisp-man/xlisp-man-007.htm) as we have avoided them in shipped plug-ins. If they prove to be a problem in the future, that can be added to bugzilla as a new issue.