Am Saturday 27 December 2003 13:09 schrieb Guntupalli Karunakar: > bash-2.05b$ ms -cv katepart.po > katepart.po:1179: 'msgstr' is not a valid C format string, unlike > 'msgid'. Reason: The character that terminates the directive number 1 > is not a valid conversion specifier. > msgfmt: found 1 fatal error You have two ways: a) do not use -c b) add a comment to the source to hint xgettext I've done b here Greetings, Stephan -- "SCO doesn't have enough understanding of the case to be able to lie convincingly. Indeed they have so little understanding that it's difficult to accuse them of lying." - Greg Lehey