Failed to convert a properties file about translate HOT 6 CLOSED

Originally posted by Oscar Manuel Gómez Senovilla:

Created [attachment 42](http://bugs.locamotion.org/attachment.cgi?id=42)

File described in comment 1

This file, when converted to po with moz2po, results in a zero size file. Other
properties files seem ok

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Do you have the associated english .properties file. We need that to convert to PO.

Do you get any errors during convertsion?
—errorlevel=traceback

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The error was as follows:
/mnt/zuza/translate.org.za/translate.sourceforge.net/src/translate/misc/quote.py:257
elif s >= len(source):
E raise ValueError(“\ at end of string”)

> ```
> ValueError: \ at end of string
> ```

The line causing it was:
EnterLinkText=Introduzca el texto a mostrar para el enlace:

I’ve added a test in storage/test_properties.py

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This is fixed with the commit to properties.py to allow escapes at the end of
the string.
Oscar, can you verify?

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Originally posted by Oscar Manuel Gómez Senovilla:

I get this with the new file:
moz2po: warning: Error processing: input
l10n/es-ES/editor/ui/chrome/composer/editor.properties, output
po/es-ES/editor/ui/chrome/composer/editor.properties.po, template
l10n/en-US/editor/ui/chrome/composer/editor.properties: \ at end of string

Maybe it’s the same, but still having trouble

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Tested this on the supplied file with templates from Mozilla 1.5:

moz2po -t editor-template.properties -i editor.properties -o editor.properties.po

Creates a valid PO file with items correctly merged. \ at end of line is now
escaped:

#: EnterLinkText
msgid “Enter text to display for the link:”
msgstr “Introduzca el texto a mostrar para el enlace\:”

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