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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: How to prevent the flag "#, qt-format"?
From:       Thomas Reitelbach <tr () erdfunkstelle ! de>
Date:       2007-06-20 23:50:46
Message-ID: 200706210150.51116.tr () erdfunkstelle ! de
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On Donnerstag, 21. Juni 2007, Chusslove Illich wrote:
> > [: Thomas Reitelbach :]
> > All these messages are marked as #, qt-format and removing the flag
> > resolves the error.
>
> This is a "known problem" with msgfmt. It treats qt-format plural strings
> in a bit dumb way: if it sees certain placeholders in msgid_plural, say %1,
> it wants to have it in every msgstr[]. Even in the msgstr[] which is valid
> only for case n=1, and in which therefore sometime the number is omitted.
> It treats c-format strings differently, it has some heuristic to allow this
> special behaviour (leave out %1) for n=1 msgstr[].
>
> So, it is gettext which should be fixed upstream, or better said updated to
> contemporary qt-format specifications. I did write an email to Translation
> Project list:

I already was afraid that it's gettext to be fixed, but I was unable to find 
any hints in google. Thanks for your explanation.

> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=200704191556.02537
>.caslav.ilic%40gmx.net&forum_name=translation-i18n
>
> hoping that the maintainer will do something about it, buthing nothing came
> out yet. It is on my list of important things to try to fix myself,
> eventually.
> 
> In the meantime, just don't use -c option to msgfmt.

Yes, thank you for your answer.

Bye
Thomas

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