Mirror qet_en.ts instead of qet_fr.ts now that English is the source

#1379 added misc/i18n/mirror_source_language.py and an INSTALL.md rule
to run it on lang/qet_fr.ts after update_translations, while French was
the source language. Since #1390 the code is English and qet_fr.ts is an
ordinary translation, so following the rule would copy English text into
empty French entries. The repository test still checked qet_fr.ts and
kept passing.

The rule, the script's description and the repository test now name
lang/qet_en.ts. The script refuses a file whose <TS> header names a
language different from its sourcelanguage (qet_fr.ts says fr_FR / en),
exits 2 and leaves it untouched; files without a sourcelanguage, like
the fixtures, are accepted as before. The 6 entries master added since
the conversion are mirrored, so qet_en.ts is complete again.

Tests: 19 in misc/i18n/test_mirror_source_language.py. The repository
test fails on master (6 entries to mirror); with the check_languages()
call removed, the two refusal tests fail and a run on qet_fr.ts goes
through.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit is contained in:
Beat Hangartner
2026-10-09 10:42:00 +02:00
parent 8e7904d7b0
commit 7cff54dd19
4 changed files with 110 additions and 35 deletions
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@@ -364,19 +364,21 @@ would happen under `-j`/parallel builds) can corrupt a `.ts` file mid-write,
causing `lrelease` to fail with "Premature end of document". Run it on its
own, review the diff, and commit the updated `.ts` files separately.
The strings in the code are French, so `lang/qet_fr.ts` is the source
The strings in the code are English, so `lang/qet_en.ts` is the source
language's own file. After `update_translations`, run
```sh
python3 misc/i18n/mirror_source_language.py lang/qet_fr.ts
python3 misc/i18n/mirror_source_language.py lang/qet_en.ts
```
before committing: it copies every new French source string into its own
translation, so `qet_fr.qm` stays complete and French wording can later be
before committing: it copies every new English source string into its own
translation, so `qet_en.qm` stays complete and English wording can later be
corrected in the `.ts` alone, without changing the key that the other
languages are attached to. Forgetting it breaks nothing (an empty entry
falls back to the code text); `--check` reports whether a run is needed.
A French correction typed into `qet_fr.ts` is lost like any other
translation when the code string is reworded; the vanished entry keeps the
old text for recovery. Never add `-removeidentical` to the `lrelease`
options: it would strip these entries again.
The script refuses any other language's file, such as `qet_fr.ts`, where it
would copy English into a translation. An English correction typed into
`qet_en.ts` is lost like any other translation when the code string is
reworded; the vanished entry keeps the old text for recovery. Never add
`-removeidentical` to the `lrelease` options: it would strip these entries
again.
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@@ -2032,17 +2032,17 @@ Continue?</translation>
<message>
<location filename="../sources/ui/diagrameditorhandlersizewidget.ui" line="31"/>
<source>x 0.25</source>
<translation type="unfinished"></translation>
<translation>x 0.25</translation>
</message>
<message>
<location filename="../sources/ui/diagrameditorhandlersizewidget.ui" line="36"/>
<source>x 0.5</source>
<translation type="unfinished"></translation>
<translation>x 0.5</translation>
</message>
<message>
<location filename="../sources/ui/diagrameditorhandlersizewidget.ui" line="41"/>
<source>x 0.75</source>
<translation type="unfinished"></translation>
<translation>x 0.75</translation>
</message>
<message>
<location filename="../sources/ui/diagrameditorhandlersizewidget.ui" line="46"/>
@@ -19699,7 +19699,7 @@ The other fields are not used.</translation>
<message>
<location filename="../sources/editor/ui/terminaleditor.cpp" line="279"/>
<source>Change the potential of a terminal</source>
<translation type="unfinished"></translation>
<translation>Change the potential of a terminal</translation>
</message>
<message>
<location filename="../sources/editor/ui/terminaleditor.cpp" line="298"/>
@@ -19798,12 +19798,12 @@ The other fields are not used.</translation>
<message>
<location filename="../sources/editor/ui/terminaleditor.ui" line="84"/>
<source>Potential:</source>
<translation type="unfinished"></translation>
<translation>Potential:</translation>
</message>
<message>
<location filename="../sources/editor/ui/terminaleditor.ui" line="91"/>
<source>No effect unless &quot;Potential isolation&quot; is checked (all terminals of the block then stay connected). When it is checked, terminals sharing the same value stay connected to each other and the others are isolated.</source>
<translation type="unfinished"></translation>
<translation>No effect unless &quot;Potential isolation&quot; is checked (all terminals of the block then stay connected). When it is checked, terminals sharing the same value stay connected to each other and the others are isolated.</translation>
</message>
<message>
<location filename="../sources/editor/ui/terminaleditor.ui" line="98"/>
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@@ -18,30 +18,35 @@
mirror_source_language.py — give every source-language string its own
translation in the source language's .ts file.
python3 misc/i18n/mirror_source_language.py lang/qet_fr.ts
python3 misc/i18n/mirror_source_language.py --check lang/qet_fr.ts
python3 misc/i18n/mirror_source_language.py lang/qet_en.ts
python3 misc/i18n/mirror_source_language.py --check lang/qet_en.ts
WHY THIS EXISTS
The strings in the code are French, and they are both the translation
key and the text the French UI shows. lang/qet_fr.ts was almost empty:
an empty entry falls back to the code text at run time, so French never
needed a translation. The price is that a French wording fix is a key
change, which orphans the translation of that string in every other
language file.
The strings in the code are English (French until #1390), and they are
both the translation key and the text the English UI shows. An empty
entry in lang/qet_en.ts falls back to the code text at run time, so the
source language never strictly needs a translation. The price is that an
English wording fix in the code is a key change, which orphans the
translation of that string in every other language file.
With every French string mirrored into qet_fr.ts, the French UI is
served from qet_fr.qm like any other language, and French wording can
be corrected in the .ts alone. The key in the code then only has to
With every source string mirrored into its own .ts file, the source
language is served from its .qm like any other language, and its wording
can be corrected in the .ts alone. The key in the code then only has to
stay stable.
Only the source language's own file may be mirrored: a run on any other
file would copy English into it. The script therefore refuses a file
whose <TS> header names a language different from its sourcelanguage
(lang/qet_fr.ts says language="fr_FR" sourcelanguage="en").
WHAT IT DOES
For every message whose translation is empty, the source text is copied
into the translation and the entry is finished. Nothing else changes:
- a translation with text is never touched, whether it is a French
rendering of an English source, identical to the source, or marked
rendering of a source in another language, identical to the source, or marked
unfinished (a translator's work in progress), with one exception:
an unfinished translation identical to its source is finished.
That is what lupdate's same-text heuristic leaves behind when a new
@@ -87,6 +92,39 @@ class SourceError(ValueError):
"""A <source> that cannot be copied verbatim."""
class LanguageError(ValueError):
"""The file is a translation into another language, not a mirror."""
TS_HEADER_RE = re.compile(r"<TS\b[^>]*>")
ATTR_RE = r'\b{}="([^"]*)"'
def _base_language(code: str) -> str:
return code.replace("-", "_").split("_")[0].lower()
def check_languages(text: str) -> None:
"""Refuse a .ts whose language is not its source language.
A file without a sourcelanguage attribute is accepted: lupdate writes
one only when it knows the source language, and the fixtures and old
files have none.
"""
header = TS_HEADER_RE.search(text)
if header is None:
return
lang = re.search(ATTR_RE.format("language"), header.group(0))
source = re.search(ATTR_RE.format("sourcelanguage"), header.group(0))
if lang is None or source is None:
return
if _base_language(lang.group(1)) != _base_language(source.group(1)):
raise LanguageError(
f'the file is a translation into "{lang.group(1)}" of '
f'"{source.group(1)}" text; only the source language\'s own '
"file can be mirrored")
@dataclass
class Stats:
mirrored_messages: int = 0
@@ -195,6 +233,7 @@ def _mirror_message(match: re.Match, forms: int, stats: Stats) -> str:
def mirror_text(text: str, forms: int = 2) -> tuple[str, Stats]:
"""Return the mirrored .ts text and what was done to it."""
check_languages(text)
stats = Stats()
new = MESSAGE_RE.sub(lambda m: _mirror_message(m, forms, stats), text)
return new, stats
@@ -204,12 +243,12 @@ def main(argv: list[str] | None = None) -> int:
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
description="Copy each empty translation's source text into the "
"translation of a source-language .ts file.")
parser.add_argument("ts", type=Path, help="the .ts file, e.g. lang/qet_fr.ts")
parser.add_argument("ts", type=Path, help="the .ts file, e.g. lang/qet_en.ts")
parser.add_argument("--check", action="store_true",
help="change nothing; exit 1 if a run would change the file")
parser.add_argument("--forms", type=int, default=2,
help="plural forms to write when a plural message has "
"none (default 2, French)")
"none (default 2, as in English and French)")
args = parser.parse_args(argv)
with open(args.ts, encoding="utf-8", newline="") as f:
@@ -217,7 +256,7 @@ def main(argv: list[str] | None = None) -> int:
try:
new, stats = mirror_text(text, args.forms)
ET.fromstring(new.encode("utf-8"))
except (SourceError, ET.ParseError) as e:
except (SourceError, LanguageError, ET.ParseError) as e:
print(f"{args.ts}: {e}", file=sys.stderr)
return 2
print(f"{args.ts}: {stats.summary()}")
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@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ byte for byte. Every message class the script distinguishes appears
once in the pair, so a change in behaviour shows up as a diff in a
known place.
The last test looks at the repository's own lang/qet_fr.ts and fails
The last test looks at the repository's own lang/qet_en.ts and fails
when it needs a mirror run: that is the maintenance rule from
INSTALL.md, kept honest.
"""
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ import mirror_source_language as m # noqa: E402
SCRIPT = HERE / "mirror_source_language.py"
BEFORE = HERE / "fixtures" / "mirror_before.ts"
AFTER = HERE / "fixtures" / "mirror_after.ts"
REPO_EN = HERE.parent.parent / "lang" / "qet_en.ts"
REPO_FR = HERE.parent.parent / "lang" / "qet_fr.ts"
@@ -153,6 +154,27 @@ class MirrorText(unittest.TestCase):
self.assertNotIn("unfinished", out)
ET.fromstring(out)
def test_translation_into_another_language_is_refused(self):
for header in ('<TS version="2.1" language="fr_FR" sourcelanguage="en">',
'<TS language="de" sourcelanguage="en_US">'):
text = (header + '<context><name>C</name><message>\n'
' <source>Open</source>\n'
' <translation></translation>\n'
' </message></context></TS>')
with self.assertRaises(m.LanguageError, msg=header):
m.mirror_text(text)
def test_source_language_file_is_accepted(self):
for header in ('<TS version="2.1" language="en_US" sourcelanguage="en">',
'<TS version="2.1" language="fr_FR">'): # no sourcelanguage
text = (header + '<context><name>C</name><message>\n'
' <source>Open</source>\n'
' <translation></translation>\n'
' </message></context></TS>')
out, stats = m.mirror_text(text)
self.assertEqual(stats.mirrored_messages, 1, header)
self.assertIn("<translation>Open</translation>", out)
def test_source_with_child_element_is_refused(self):
text = ('<TS><context><name>C</name><message>\n'
' <source>a<byte value="7"/>b</source>\n'
@@ -198,12 +220,24 @@ class CommandLine(unittest.TestCase):
self.assertIn("child element", r.stderr)
self.assertEqual(read(tmp), bad)
@unittest.skipUnless(REPO_FR.is_file(), "lang/qet_fr.ts not found next to the tool")
def test_repository_french_file_is_mirrored(self):
"""The maintenance rule: run the mirror after update_translations."""
r = self.run_script("--check", str(REPO_FR))
@unittest.skipUnless(REPO_EN.is_file(), "lang/qet_en.ts not found next to the tool")
def test_repository_source_language_file_is_mirrored(self):
"""The maintenance rule: run the mirror after update_translations.
Until 2026-10-09 this checked lang/qet_fr.ts, which #1390 had turned
into an ordinary translation; it passed while the rule was wrong."""
r = self.run_script("--check", str(REPO_EN))
self.assertEqual(r.returncode, 0,
f"lang/qet_fr.ts needs a mirror run:\n{r.stdout}")
f"lang/qet_en.ts needs a mirror run:\n{r.stdout}")
@unittest.skipUnless(REPO_FR.is_file(), "lang/qet_fr.ts not found next to the tool")
def test_repository_translation_file_is_refused(self):
"""A run on the French translation would copy English into it."""
before = REPO_FR.read_bytes()
r = self.run_script(str(REPO_FR))
self.assertEqual(r.returncode, 2, r.stdout)
self.assertIn("only the source language", r.stderr)
self.assertEqual(REPO_FR.read_bytes(), before)
if __name__ == "__main__":