Re: French translation of Bison runs afoul of gettext 0.15

[Michel Robitaille]

Hi Paul

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It is now corrected (I was using the previous version of gettext)..
The files have been send out.

Cheers
Best regards
Michel

Paul Eggert wrote:
> I'm having trouble building CVS Bison using GNU gettext 0.15, which
> was released recently.  One issue is that gettext 0.15 rejects
> the French translation of Bison:
> 
> http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/translation/teams/PO/fr/bison-runtime-2.3.fr.po
> 
> with a fatal diagnostic, as follows:
> 
>    rm -f fr.gmo && msgfmt -c --statistics -o fr.gmo fr.po
>    fr.po:79: number of format specifications in 'msgid' and 'msgstr[1]' does 
> not match
>    msgfmt: found 1 fatal error
> 
> Here's the offending entry:
> 
>    #: src/conflicts.c:520
>    #, c-format
>    msgid "expected %d reduce/reduce conflict"
>    msgid_plural "expected %d reduce/reduce conflicts"
>    msgstr[0] "attendait 0 conflit par réduction/réduction"
>    msgstr[1] "attendait 0 conflits par réduction/réduction"
> 
> Could you please fix this, and send email to address@hidden when
> it's fixed?  I'm afraid we'll have to temporarily disable the use of
> the French translation in the meantime, so that CVS builds work.
> 
> I'm CC'ing this to bug-gnu-gettext, because it seems to me that the
> translations are not strictly an error from a printf point of view
> (ignoring any issue of the correctness of the French), since printf
> allows formats that do not consume all the arguments.  For example,
> <http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/fprintf.html>
> says "If the format is exhausted while arguments remain, the excess
> arguments shall be evaluated but are otherwise ignored."; this is
> longstanding practice.  So it may make sense to warn about this
> particular usage, but a fatal error is a bit strong.


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