[bug #64921] xgettext marks more strings as c-format in 0.22 than in 0.21

[Anders Jonsson]

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?64921>

                 Summary: xgettext marks more strings as c-format in 0.22 than
in 0.21
                   Group: GNU gettext
               Submitter: haaninjo
               Submitted: Thu 23 Nov 2023 02:18:04 PM UTC
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any


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Follow-up Comments:


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Date: Thu 23 Nov 2023 02:18:04 PM UTC By: Anders Jonsson <haaninjo>
On l10n.gnome.org, some date strings started to be marked as fuzzy last week.
This was preceded by a Fedora update with new gettext version.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/damned-lies/-/issues/461


Testing suggests that something happened between gettext 0.21 and 0.22 that
starts marking more strings as c-format. See attached file for a diff of
Shotwell strings extracted between xgettext 0.21 for Debian Stable and
gettext0.22.146-ba3815.


GDate strings that are treated as c-format makes it hard for languages that
uses different order of the tags. Other strings like "(Help)" were also marked
c-format which seems weird. 

I first thought that only extraction of vala files was affected, but then I
saw https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/issues/2761 as well
for .c files. It was worked around there by the no-c-format flag.



Command used for extraction:

xgettext --files-from POTFILES.in --directory .. --from-code utf-8
--add-comments --output shotwell.pot --keyword=_ --keyword=N_
--keyword=C_:1c,2 --keyword=NC_:1c,2 --keyword=g_dcgettext:2
--keyword=g_dngettext:2,3 --keyword=g_dpgettext2:2c,3
--flag=N_:1:pass-c-format --flag=C_:2:pass-c-format --flag=NC_:2:pass-c-format
--flag=g_dngettext:2:pass-c-format --flag=g_strdup_printf:1:c-format
--flag=g_string_printf:2:c-format --flag=g_string_append_printf:2:c-format
--flag=g_error_new:3:c-format --flag=g_set_error:4:c-format
--msgid-bugs-address https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/shotwell/issues








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Date: Thu 23 Nov 2023 02:18:04 PM UTC  Name: shotwell.diff  Size: 3KiB   By:
haaninjo
More strings marked as c-format in gettext 0.22
<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=55350>

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