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diff --git a/doc/development/i18n_guide.md b/doc/development/i18n_guide.md index 756535e28bc..bd0ef39ca62 100644 --- a/doc/development/i18n_guide.md +++ b/doc/development/i18n_guide.md @@ -138,6 +138,47 @@ translations. There's no need to generate `.po` files. Translations that aren't used in the source code anymore will be marked with `~#`; these can be removed to keep our translation files clutter-free. +### Validating PO files + +To make sure we keep our translation files up to date, there's a linter that is +running on CI as part of the `static-analysis` job. + +To lint the adjustments in PO files locally you can run `rake gettext:lint`. + +The linter will take the following into account: + +- Valid PO-file syntax +- Variable usage + - Only one unnamed (`%d`) variable, since the order of variables might change + in different languages + - All variables used in the message-id are used in the translation + - There should be no variables used in a translation that aren't in the + message-id +- Errors during translation. + +The errors are grouped per file, and per message ID: + +``` +Errors in `locale/zh_HK/gitlab.po`: + PO-syntax errors + SimplePoParser::ParserErrorSyntax error in lines + Syntax error in msgctxt + Syntax error in msgid + Syntax error in msgstr + Syntax error in message_line + There should be only whitespace until the end of line after the double quote character of a message text. + Parseing result before error: '{:msgid=>["", "You are going to remove %{project_name_with_namespace}.\\n", "Removed project CANNOT be restored!\\n", "Are you ABSOLUTELY sure?"]}' + SimplePoParser filtered backtrace: SimplePoParser::ParserError +Errors in `locale/zh_TW/gitlab.po`: + 1 pipeline + <%d 條流水線> is using unknown variables: [%d] + Failure translating to zh_TW with []: too few arguments +``` + +In this output the `locale/zh_HK/gitlab.po` has syntax errors. +The `locale/zh_TW/gitlab.po` has variables that are used in the translation that +aren't in the message with id `1 pipeline`. + ## Working with special content ### Interpolation |