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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: Commit hook now using msgfmt -c
From:       Chusslove Illich <caslav.ilic () gmx ! net>
Date:       2007-10-16 14:59:46
Message-ID: 200710161659.51595.caslav.ilic () gmx ! net
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> [: Yukiko Bando :]
> Japanese processui.po (in kdebase) is rejected because of this message.
> [...]
> processui.po:204: 'msgstr' is not a valid C format string, unlike 'msgid'.

I thought whether I should also mention this particular issue in the
original post, but opted against for brevity -- however, the odds bet me on
it :)

Unfortunatelly, this is one (rare) mode of failure that cannot be avoided;
upon extracting POT, xgettext interpreted the "...% i..." part in
"...than 100% if you..." as a c-format directive, and therefore asigned
c-format flag to the messages. Of course, in translation the "...% i..." is
most probably not going to be preserved, and so the error.

This must be solved on case-by-case basis by explicitely marking the message
as no-c-format in the code itself, via special comment for xgettext, in the
line just preceeding the message. In this example, the fix was:

      ...
      // xgettext: no-c-format
      return i18n("The CPU usage that this process is currently using.  "
                  "This can be greater than 100% if you have more than "
                  "one processor.");

and over the night Scripty will update POTs and POs to the "committable"
state.

For a statistical measure, I went about adding these comments before the
hook was engaged, finding less than 20 of messages needing them (to ~100.000
current total). So I don't think there is a need for more formal mechanism
than translators reporting these issues as encountered, and than anyone with
commit access feeling so can add the comment (instead of writing a bug
report or something...)

-- 
Chusslove Illich (Часлав Илић)
Serbian KDE translation team

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