Re: [Translation-i18n] Handling qt-format in gettext tools (was: Updating qt-format handling?)

[Chusslove Illich]

> [: Bruno Haible :]
> The written specification is not enough. You also need to look into the
> source code. As far as I can see, the initial comment in format-qt.c needs
> to be changed as follows: [...]

Hm, indeed. I would only use this wording for unterminated directives:

  Directives cannot be escaped, hence '%' or '%L' not followed by a digit
  is not an error, but a verbatim segment of the text.

> [: Bruno Haible :]
> So, effectively we have two kinds of Qt format strings: [...] The
> translator must not give a translation of the second kind for an msgid of
> the first kind.

How about only insisting on exact match for the directives? E.g. if there is
%1 in the msgid, translator cannot use any of %L1, %01, or %L01, and other
ways around. The only change in the format parser for this is to consider
%0n as directives 100-109, so that they are different from %n.

> [: Bruno Haible :]
> I would appreciate a patch that takes into account the finding for 1. + 2.
> mentioned above.

One with the two tweaks above is attached (also a few extra format tests for
make check).

> [: Bruno Haible :]
> As you can see, I haven't found the time to do these changes in 4 months.

No problem, KDE4 has been anyway delayed until the end of the year :)

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Chusslove Illich (Часлав Илић)

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