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bug#33474: Bug in error message formatting
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Pádraig Brady |
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bug#33474: Bug in error message formatting |
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Date: |
Fri, 23 Nov 2018 13:03:32 -0800 |
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On 23/11/18 05:56, Mark Roberts wrote:
> Dear madams and sirs,
>
> the German translation of 'tail' has a formatting error when reporting
> that the PID to be monitored is invalid. The English version is correct.
>
> English version:
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>> export LANG=""
>> tail -f --pid=aaa /dev/null
> tail: invalid PID: 'aaa'
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> German version:
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>> export LANG="de_DE.UTF-8"
>> tail -f --pid=aaa /dev/null
> tail: %s: ungültige PID: „aaa“
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> The %s should not be there.
Indeed thanks.
The source of that file is the translation project,
CCing them and closing here.