transifex error

[Jacobo Nájera]

When I am trying to translate spanish version:

Translation must start with a newline ()

With:

Create a free account? or? Set up MediaGoblin on your own server?

[Christopher Allan Webber]

The problem here is when we have something like:

{% trans register_url=request.urlgen('mediagoblin.auth.register') %}
  <a class="header_submit_highlight" href="{{ register_url }}">Create a free account</a>
  or
  <a class="header_submit" href="http://wiki.mediagoblin.org/HackingHowto">Set up MediaGoblin on your own server</a>
{% endtrans %}

instead of:

{% trans register_url=request.urlgen('mediagoblin.auth.register') -%}
  <a class="header_submit_highlight" href="{{ register_url }}">Create a free account</a>
  or
  <a class="header_submit" href="http://wiki.mediagoblin.org/HackingHowto">Set up MediaGoblin on your own server</a>
{%- endtrans %}

The distinction might not be obvious... look for the } versus

?

.. raw:: html

   <del></del>

} and {% versus {% on the first and last lines. The thing about this is this tells Jinja2 to strip the whitespace. Without that, Transifex sees that there's a "" on the first line of the original but not on the future translation, and gets upset.

I think there are two things that should be done before this bug is closed.

• I should make sure whitespace is stripped on this particular bit of translations
• I should make notes on the wiki about this on the translation page, and on the templating page if it exists (I don't think it does though :))

[Christopher Allan Webber]

Fixed, and updated http://wiki.mediagoblin.org/Translations#Troubleshooting

[Will Kahn-Greene]

The original url for this bug was ​http://bugs.foocorp.net/issues/593 .