Launchpad itself

launchpad translations doesn't understand the flutter format (arb)

Bug #1990284 reported by Sebastien Bacher
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Launchpad itself
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Bug Description

Flutter has its own translations format (arb) which is currently not supported by launchpad

Some of our projects opted it to do their translation on weblate, example
https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/ubuntu-desktop-installer/

it would be nice to have the option to use launchpad for flutter projects though

The format is described on https://github.com/google/app-resource-bundle/wiki/ApplicationResourceBundleSpecification

Example of the translations files for the new installer
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-desktop-installer/tree/main/packages/ubuntu_desktop_installer/lib/l10n

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote (last edit ):

I suspect it would be a relatively straightforward task to write an importer and exporter for this in `lib/lp/translations/utilities/` to go with the others that are already there. https://pypi.org/project/strings2pot/ only works on Python 2 so we can't use it directly, but it might at least provide ideas (its `strings2pot/extractors/arb.py` is only 134 lines of code, so pretty digestible).

tags: added: feature lp-translations
Changed in launchpad:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → High
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Adolfo Jayme Barrientos (fitojb) wrote :

Or, y’know, let us translators just use Weblate (which has a much better UX) and be done with the NIH syndrome.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

@Adolfo, you are free to use weblate if you wish, the request is to add flutter support to launchpad so those we decide to host a flutter project on it could benefit from translations.

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