Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 31271
xgettext fetches zone.tab comments
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:32:06 EDT
#. generated from zone.tab msgid "# 1. ISO 3166 2-character country code. See the file `iso3166.tab'." #. generated from zone.tab msgid "# (1) makes some geographical sense, and" #. generated from zone.tab msgid "# 2. Latitude and longitude of the zone's principal location" #. generated from zone.tab msgid "" "# (2) puts the most populous zones first, where that does not contradict (1)." #. generated from zone.tab msgid "# 3. Zone name used in value of TZ environment variable." #. generated from zone.tab msgid "# 4. Comments; present if and only if the country has multiple rows." #. generated from zone.tab msgid "# Columns are separated by a single tab." #. generated from zone.tab msgid "#country-" #. generated from zone.tab msgid "# either +-DDMM+-DDDMM or +-DDMMSS+-DDDMMSS," #. generated from zone.tab msgid "# first latitude (+ is north), then longitude (+ is east)." #. generated from zone.tab msgid "# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1996-08-05):" #. generated from zone.tab msgid "# in ISO 6709 sign-degrees-minutes-seconds format," #. generated from zone.tab msgid "# Lines beginning with `#' are comments." #. generated from zone.tab msgid "" "# The table is sorted first by country, then an order within the country that" #. generated from zone.tab msgid "# This file contains a table with the following columns:" #. generated from zone.tab msgid "# TZ zone descriptions" These messages all recently ended up in the i18n robot for translators to translate. I suspect that they are comments in the zone.tab file and hence shouldn't be translated. However, if that's the case, please remove those comments or otherwise make sure that they aren't fetched by xgettext - having them in the pot file makes unnecessary, unused work for translators, clutters up the translations, and makes the translation statistics and tracking inaccurate.
they are included in the GUI timezone selecter. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30869
What I want to know is if the messages mentioned in *this* report are displayed to the end user. If not, they should be removed. I really doubt that messages like "# This file contains a table with the following columns:" are displayed in the GUI installer?
I don't know how those got in anaconda.pot - when I ran make update-po they all fell out.