Just a capture

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libmsn-pecan-fr.po seems to be ok.
Maybe it's a problem about fonts encoding?

Exemples of sentences which are translated in .po file but stay in english on screen : 

#: msn.c:712
msgid "Set Friendly Name..."
msgstr "Changer l'alias..."


#: msn.c:345
msgid "Set your home phone number."
msgstr "Définir le numéro de téléphone personnel"

#: msn.c:743
msgid "Allow/Disallow Mobile Pages..."
msgstr "Autoriser ou empêcher les messages sur téléphones portables..."

#: msn.c:753
msgid "Open Hotmail Inbox"
msgstr "Ouvrir votre boîte de réception Hotmail"

====> All these french sentences include special characters.

Can you try changing some of the translations to see if the problem is indeed special
characters?

Waiting for an answer.

Sorry for this late answer. No time for Pidgin, these weeks! 

> Comment 4  by felipe.contreras, Mar 15, 2009
> "Can you try changing some of the translations to see if the problem is indeed
special characters?"

What do you mean, exactly? Try to make some changes in the sources and the to build it?

I'm just working on MS Windows XP for some days. I just re-installed Pidgin and
msn-pecan 0.19 (Live Messenger is so heavy!). The same problem occurs with the
translations.

Is it possible that it requires a particular settings for the font encoding during
the build of the plugin?

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Hmm, translations on win32 are not working: issue 63.

But they should be working on Ubuntu. I don't know how the PPA packages are built,
have you checked that the correct .mo files are installed? What does dpkg -L says?

Currently, there's always the 0.0.18 build in the PPA.

With this one, i get :

$ dpkg -L msn-pecan
/.
/usr
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/purple-2
/usr/lib/purple-2/libmsn-pecan.so
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/msn-pecan
/usr/share/doc/msn-pecan/README
/usr/share/doc/msn-pecan/copyright
/usr/share/doc/msn-pecan/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/msn-pecan/AUTHORS
/usr/share/locale
/usr/share/locale/da
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/libmsn-pecan.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/libmsn-pecan.mo
/usr/share/locale/ar
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/libmsn-pecan.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/libmsn-pecan.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/libmsn-pecan.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/libmsn-pecan.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/libmsn-pecan.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/libmsn-pecan.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/libmsn-pecan.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/libmsn-pecan.mo
/usr/share/locale/es
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/libmsn-pecan.mo
/usr/share/locale/de
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/libmsn-pecan.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/libmsn-pecan.mo
/usr/share/locale/it
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/libmsn-pecan.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/libmsn-pecan.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/libmsn-pecan.mo

So there's no french translation after setup.
After another check-up, fr localization files are not in the
msn-pecan_0.0.18+12-g7a3c990-0msnpecan1_i386.deb from the PPA.

Grrrrrrrr.... 
I just tried to remove (and purge) PPA's deb, to download 0.019 sources and to build it.

Make gave me the log make.log, and no pb with checkinstall.

But after setup, dpkg -L shows me only :
/.
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/msn-pecan
/usr/share/doc/msn-pecan/TODO
/usr/share/doc/msn-pecan/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/msn-pecan/README
/usr/share/doc/msn-pecan/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/msn-pecan/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/doc/msn-pecan/AUTHORS
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/purple-2
/usr/lib/purple-2/libmsn-pecan.so

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How did you build? You need to run 'make install_locales' I'm not sure if the debian
rules are doing that.

I just did it as in the wiki, whether i used checkinstall instead of
make install.
So :
make
   # (as logged)
sudo checkinstall

I just did it as in the wiki, whether i used checkinstall instead of
make install.
So :
make
   # (as logged)
sudo checkinstall

checkinstall? that's not part of msn-pecan Makefile.

I just updated the wiki to mention:
sudo make install_locales

> checkinstall? that's not part of msn-pecan Makefile.

Checkinstall is a command line tool that could be used instead of "make install".

"CheckInstall keeps track of all files installed by a "make install" or equivalent,
creates a Slackware, RPM, or Debian package with those files, and adds it to the
installed packages database, allowing for easy package removal or distribution."
(https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CheckInstall)


> I just updated the wiki to mention:
> sudo make install_locales

OK, I 'm gonna try it.

You might want to try the IRC channel too:
http://code.google.com/p/msn-pecan/wiki/Communicating

Patch committed :
http://github.com/felipec/msn-pecan/commit/1ac67c72db73c4f0caf54017660ae530bb5c9c35

Just waiting for an updated release ;-)

Thxs

Heh, fixed in git :)

The same problem for the french translation occurred on 0.1.0~rc1-0msnpecan1~jaunty1
from the PPA : 


(exactly the same description as in initial report)
[From the menu Account > WLM > All the items are untranslated except
  - the first : "Modify the account" 
  - the last : "Disactivate" 
(I translate for you ;-) )

Flying over a buddy :
  - account : translated
  - pseudo : translated
  - status (& its variable) : untranslated
  - has you (& its variable) : untranslated
  - blocked (& its variable) : untranslated

Right click on a buddy :
  - initiate chat : untranslated

Settings for WLM, advanced tab : 
  - server
  - port (it's the same word in french ... so I don't know!)
  - use http method
  - show custom smileys
  - use server-side alias
  - use direct connections
  - use user displays
  - don't show messenger plus! tags
are untranslated]

However the patch is always ok on the git (fr inserted in the "catalog" lines of the
makefile. 

There's also this issue in the Windows RC1  release.

@mavosaure can you try installing msn-pecan yourself?

Maybe the debian packaging needs some tunning. If so, maybe you can also help fixing 
it :)

The translations are not updated in RC1, that's why you don't see all the translations.

devidfil according to launchpad the French translation is 100% up-to-date, just like 
the Italian one.

I downloaded the latest translations and they match perfectly with the current git 
master branch: except a bit of shuffling.

Other translations still need updating.