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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: Finding a strange error while submitting at trunk
From:       Freek de Kruijf <f.de.kruijf () gmail ! com>
Date:       2011-07-06 14:41:02
Message-ID: 201107061641.02099.f.de.kruijf () gmail ! com
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Op woensdag 6 juli 2011 16:13:31 schreef g.sora:
> In data mercoledì 6 luglio 2011 15:55:28, Pino Toscano ha scritto:
> Ok, I changed it again, but please take care that the original error
> message states:
> 
> a format specification for arguments 1 and 2 doesn't exist in 'msgstr[0]',
> 
> so it is generating a little bit confusion.

I agree, but %1 is always the count and is tested. In case it is 1 msgstr[0] 
will be used. In case it is >1 msgstr[1] will be used, but there are other 
languages that have more plurals, so the testing and the selection is more 
complicated.

Apparently in your language font is one font and fonts is more that one font. 
So the msgstr[0] could have been ".... %1 font ....", but %1 is left out 
because the word font represents one font, so ".... 1 font ...." is OK, but 
the "1" can be left out. However %2 and %3 still have the meaning of the 
source and destination irrespective of the value %1, so these must be there.

> More, we have the plural sentence that has 3 arguments.
> Of course my knowledge of this argument is too poor to understand it, but
> if I am not wrong (it seems I remember the case, but cannot show where it
> is), in other cases when we had different arguments for singular and
> plural sentences the position id numbers shift accordingly.
> 
> In effect the changed complete sentence is now:
> 
> msgstr[0] "Tu realmente vole mover iste font ex <i>%2</i> a <i>%3</i>?"
> msgstr[1] "Tu vermente vole mover iste %1 fonts ex <i>%2</i> a <i>%3</i>?"
> 
> with 2 arguments for singular and 3 arguments for plural.

This is the same in my language.

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fr.gr.

Freek de Kruijf

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