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Translation not taking 2 years 3 months ago #56527

bmdavis
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I've tested this a number of ways and I cannot get the translation for the javascript mandatory question alert to display my updated translation (for vietnamese - vi). I'm using POedit per the instructions on the translation page, updating the translations then uploading to the correct location. The other fields I've tried changing work immediately (e.g. "Next" button), but I cannot get the mandatory question popup to update.

The stock English text is always showing up:
"One or more mandatory questions have not been answered. You cannot proceed until these have been completed"

Curiously, the final period does not show up either. I'm at a loss as to what is going on. I'm using LS 1.80 (6506). I'm sure I'll hear that version is two years old and you should update, but heavy customizations I've made make that impossible right now. Any suggestions?

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Re: Translation not taking 2 years 3 months ago #56535

DenisChenu OFFLINE Moderator Lime Posts: 4409 Thank you received: 456 Karma: 166	Hello, did you upload the po AND the mo files ?
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Re: Translation not taking 2 years 3 months ago #56556

Mazi OFFLINE LimeSurvey Team Posts: 5116 Thank you received: 261 Karma: 240	Please check PHP files group.php, question.php, qanda.php and survey.php if the string is enclosed in the clang->gT function so it will be translated properly, e.g.: echo "<p><span class='errormandatory'>" . $clang->gT("One or more mandatory questions have not been answered. You cannot proceed until these have been completed.") . "</span></p>";
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Re: Translation not taking 2 years 3 months ago #56634

bmdavis OFFLINE Fresh Lemon Posts: 13 Karma: 0	Thanks Mazi! Your suggestion was right on. I found the string in qanda.php. The issue was the last period mission, so it couldn't make a match with the string in the translation file. Once those two strings matched, everything worked. I grabbed updated translation files and I'm all set. Thanks again for the help!
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Re: Translation not taking 2 years 3 months ago #56653

Mazi OFFLINE LimeSurvey Team Posts: 5116 Thank you received: 261 Karma: 240	Thanks for your feedback. Can you post the original line and the updated line of code so we can check if the problem still exists and we can fix it!?
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Re: Translation not taking 2 years 3 months ago #56744

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Mazi wrote:

Thanks for your feedback. Can you post the original line and the updated line of code so we can check if the problem still exists and we can fix it!?

Here is the chunk of original code from the file qanda.php, lines 670-674 from version 1.80 (6506):

$popup="<script type=\"text/javascript\">\n
   <!--\n $(document).ready(function(){
      alert(\"".$clang->gT("One or more mandatory questions have not been answered. You cannot proceed until these have been completed", "js")."\");});\n //-->\n
   </script>\n";
      $mandatorypopup="Y";

All I changed to get my translations working was adding the final "." after the word "completed", then made sure all my relevant translation files had the same exact sting, including the final period. Apparently some of the translation files (some new and some old) implemented that string with or without the final period. Proper grammar (at least the European languages I'm familiar with) dictates a sentence should end in a period.

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Re: Translation not taking 2 years 3 months ago #56777

Mazi OFFLINE LimeSurvey Team Posts: 5116 Thank you received: 261 Karma: 240	Fixed at 1.90...
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