[bug #40139] [I18N] Message created with concatenation of translated strings

[Daniele Forsi]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?40139>

                 Summary: [I18N] Message created with concatenation of
translated strings
                 Project: make
            Submitted by: dforsi
            Submitted on: sab 28 set 2013 16:45:08 CEST
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
       Component Version: SCM
        Operating System: None
           Fixed Release: None
           Triage Status: None

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Details:

An error message is created using 2 translated strings which is error prone
for translators:

This is the code from current git:

              fatal (fstart, _("missing separator%s"),
                     (cmd_prefix == '\t' && !strneq (line, "        ", 8))
                     ? "" : _(" (did you mean TAB instead of 8 spaces?)"));
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/make.git/tree/read.c#n1123


In fact it is wrong in the Italian translation:
"separatore %s mancante".

A least this needs a "translators" comment telling that the %s must be at the
end of the string.

A possible fix is using two different strings:
_("missing separator")
_("missing separator" (did you mean TAB instead of 8 spaces?))





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