Strange style code in Launchpad

[skyper]

Do not really have a clue but the bunch of style code within the translation looks strange.

Have a ​look

[stoecker]

A side effect of how gettext extracts comments. I don't know a solution to this.

[AlfonZ]

It seems that gettext is ignoring empty lines while concatenating comments.
Something like

i18n/convstyle.pl

@@ -23 +23 @@
   {
     print "/* color $1 */ tr(\"$1\");\n";
   }
+  elsif($line =~ /^$/)
+  {
+    print ";\n";
+  }
   else
   {
     print "/* $line */\n";

will shorten it to

item "Highways/Streets/Roundabout" combo "Type" display value
item "Ways/Cycle Lane" combo "Highway" display value
item "Man Made/Man Made/Entrance" combo "Entrance" display value
<rule>
<condition k="highway" v="service"/>
color service
<rule>
<condition k="public_transport" v="platform"/>
<condition k="train" v="yes"/>
<icon annotate="true" src="transport/railway_station.png"  priority="10" />
color service
<rule>
<condition k="public_transport" v="platform"/>
<condition k="tram" v="yes"/>
<icon annotate="true" src="transport/railway_station.png"  priority="8" />
color service
<rule>
<condition k="public_transport" v="platform"/>
<condition k="ferry" v="yes"/>
<icon annotate="true" src="transport/ferry.png"  priority="7" />
color service
<rule>
<condition k="public_transport" v="platform"/>
<condition k="aerial" v="yes"/>
<icon annotate="true" src="transport/aerialway/station.png"  priority="6" />
color service
<rule>
<condition k="public_transport" v="platform"/>
<condition k="bus" v="yes"/>
<icon annotate="true" src="transport/bus_small.png"  priority="4" />
color service
<rule>
<condition k="public_transport" v="platform"/>
<icon annotate="true" src="transport/bus_small.png" priority="-10"/>
color service

Another hack like

i18n/convstyle.pl

@@ -21 +21 @@
   }
   elsif($line =~ /colour="([^"]+)#/)
   {
-    print "/* color $1 */ tr(\"$1\");\n";
+    print "tr(\"\");/* color $1 */ tr(\"$1\");\n";
   }
   else
   {

will shorten it even more to

item "Highways/Streets/Roundabout" combo "Type" display value
item "Ways/Cycle Lane" combo "Highway" display value
item "Man Made/Man Made/Entrance" combo "Entrance" display value
color service

(by moving all the stuff into empty string)

[stoecker]

You're right. In [o29943] I moved must ugly comments to empty string, which should not appear in list of translations.

[skyper]

Well, some better filtering/shortening would be nice and less confusing for translators.

[stoecker]

Milestone renamed