Rosetta tells me error in format

If the error message you are getting is something like 'X-Rosetta-Export-Date' missing, you should try uploading as 'Published upload', instead of using 'User upload'.

'User upload' is for translators doing changes to translations, and as a maintainer, you ought to be using 'Published'. This is also important so Launchpad can determine what translations to give priority to.

Alternative for you is to create a tarball in the form of:

   po/ljklient.pot
   po/hu.po
   po/fr.po
   po/de.po
   ...

and upload that using 'Upload a file' on https://translations.launchpad.net/ljklient/0.1.x/+pots/ljklient/, when it will be automatically recognised as 'published' and will work correctly.

All the error is “there was an error in the format” — meanwhile there was no error whatsoever, and since I’m trying to import my otherwise hand- and poedit- and xgettext generated files, which convert into .mo with msgfmt and poedit itself (no idea whether poedit uses something internal or if it invokes msgfmt) without any sign of error… there should be no rosetta header in there at all. I pretty much just want to fill up my empty pot with the already done translations so we don’t duplicate efforts, etc.

I’ll try published upload, but its description confused me (“Published upload— Select this if this upload is identical to the corresponding file in the upstream release or source package.”), I had assumed this is for software already managed by launchpad, and ljKlient barely is (we live on SourceForge and I’m only just trying to see if Rosetta will be of any good for us as a translation interface)

Danilo, the uploaded as Published files appear to report failure right now :/

Henrik, I can see failed imports for PO files, and testing this, I'd say the problem is with usage of 'msgctxt' keyword which is still unsupported in Launchpad.

Yes, this message is 'obsolete' (#~ comment), but it's still considered a real message in PO file. The solution would be to remove those messages from PO files, and try uploading again.

Eg. remove

#, fuzzy
#~ msgctxt "The shortcut for Edit Friends"
#~ msgid "Ctrl+F"
#~ msgstr "Ctrl+F"

from ljklient-hu.po.

We do plan to support msgctxt in the near future.