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Re: Errors in the coreutils-6.9 PO file
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Eric Blake |
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Re: Errors in the coreutils-6.9 PO file |
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Wed, 24 Oct 2007 06:33:31 -0600 |
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According to Clytie Siddall on 10/24/2007 2:37 AM:
> Hi :)
>
> I recently reviewed our translation of coreutils for the Translation
> Project. I noticed the following errors, which I thought you might like
> to fix in an upcoming release:
> ___
> 1. This is a fatal error for msgfmt:
>
> #: src/expr.c:133
> #, c-format
> msgid ""
> "\n"
> " ARG1 * ARG2 arithmetic product of ARG1 and ARG2\n"
> " ARG1 / ARG2 arithmetic quotient of ARG1 divided by ARG2\n"
> " ARG1 % ARG2 arithmetic remainder of ARG1 divided by ARG2\n"
>
> A bare percentage sign in a c-format string will be reported as an error
> in the translation.
But the string in question occurs inside fputs, not printf. So why is
xgettext marking it as c-format? Bruno?
> We can workaround this by making the string
> non-c-format, if that's appropriate in the code context.
Yes, as you can see by looking at src/expr.c line 133.
- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake address@hidden
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