Re: Errors in the coreutils-6.9 PO file

[Micah Cowan]

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Jim Meyering wrote:
> Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> It *used to be* a format string.
> Checking a .po file built from latest sources:
> 
>   $ grep -B6 ARG1.%.A po/vi.po|cut -c1-13
>   #: src/expr.c
>   #, c-format

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Yes, it used to be a format string; however, does xgettext know this?
That is, the generated coreutils.pot file itself has #, c-format in it
(on my system, with stock xgettext 0.16.1 from Ubuntu 7.04). Does
xgettext just see the % and think "Oh, C format string"? If so, perhaps
the heuristic could be adjusted a bit...

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Micah J. Cowan
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http://micah.cowan.name/

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