[wp-polyglots] 2.9: Loss of translation for certain plugins

[Lionel Chollet]

The issue was not with Subscribe To Comments but with Subscribe 2 (a
newsletter plugin).
I guess the lost translation problem only affects plugins translated with
CodeStyling Localization.


2009/12/24 Peter Westwood <peter.westwood at ftwr.co.uk>

>
> On 23 Dec 2009, at 22:33, Xavier Borderie wrote:
>
>  An update from a user on this:
>>
>> http://www.wordpress-fr.net/blog/sortie-de-wordpress-2-9-carmen#comment-14400
>> (in French, partial translation below)
>>
>> <<
>> In the end, all I had to to is donwload each plugins PO file from my
>> FTP, open them in poEdit, finish translating what was note translated,
>> re-upload, and voilà, it now works.
>> I get the feeling WP2.9 needs us to re-declare these files, or
>> something...
>>
>>>
>>>>
>> ...and after inquiring with this user by e-mail :
>>
>> <<
>> 1) Note that I updated with de-activating my plugins, I have too many of
>> them...
>>
>> 2) The sad part is that some plugins were still translated correctly
>> (like subscribe-to-comments), by I did this process with their PO
>> anyway, and once back online, the plugins where not translated
>> anymore, I had to reupload the original po/mo !
>>
>> There you go, I don't really get it, but that's the way it works for me.
>>
>>>
>>>>
>> Nikolay or anyone with gettext knowledge, any opinion on this?
>>
>
>
> The subscribe-to-comments plugin does bundle translations so I assume they
> are using this fr_FR translation (which I found via google)
>
> http://www.ouaza.com/wp/2007/09/03/subscribe-to-comments-en-francais/
>
> I put the file there into
> 'wp-content/plugins/subscribe-to-comments-fr_FR.mo'
>
> I did this to 2.8.6 with the fr_FR lang pack on localhost and upgraded to
> 2.9 and the plugin kept it's translations.
>
> So this doesn't appear to reproduce the problem they are describing.
>
> If the plugin was translatable but expected the files to be placed inside
> the plugins own directory rather than in the root of wp-content/plugins and
> they have added a translation file not included in the plugin download then
> it will get removed by the plugin updater when they update the plugin as it
> removes all old files before putting the new ones in.
>
> I wonder if that is what has happened - although it doesn't explain the
> issue with subscribe-to-comments
>
> Peter
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