[Evergreen-general] Strange characters in translated web client menu (3.5.1)

[Linda Jansová]

Hi Bill,

Thank you very much, we will proceed as you have suggested :-)!

Linda

On 11/2/20 9:12 PM, Bill Erickson wrote:
> Hi Linda,
>
> I'm not yet sure what's adding those characters, but it seems to be 
> happening somewhere in the XMB => poeditor => XTB translation.  In the 
> meantime, we could remove the characters during the build process.
>
> You can use something like this locally to create an alternate 
> version of the file with the junk removed:
>
> cd Open-ILS/src/eg2/src/locale
> sed -z 's/\n␣\+//g' messages.cs-CZ.xtb > messages.cs-CZ.xtb.tmp
> mv messages.cs-CZ.xtb.tmp messages.cs-CZ.xtb
>
> Then re-run the npm command to build the locale.
>
> -b
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 2, 2020 at 1:09 PM Linda Jansová <linda.jansova at gmail.com 
> <mailto:linda.jansova at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Dear all,
>
>     As we move forward in testing Evergreen 3.5.1, we have come across
>     strange characters in top-level menu items in the eg2 part of the
>     web client.
>
>     More specifically, open box characters (apparently these ones:
>     https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2423/index.htm
>     <https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2423/index.htm>)
>     appear alongside the proper menu item labels (please see the the
>     attached translated_menu.png picture).
>
>     These characters can already be found in the translations (please
>     see the attached acquisitions_translation.png file). Also, another
>     character (this time
>     https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/016f/index.htm
>     <https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/016f/index.htm>) is
>     present instead of the Home link.
>
>     Do you have any idea about how to get rid of these characters and
>     start seeing proper translations?
>
>     Thank you in advance for any hints!
>
>     Linda
>
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