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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: Finding a strange error while submitting at trunk
From:       Albert Astals Cid <aacid () kde ! org>
Date:       2011-07-06 22:35:29
Message-ID: 201107062335.29797.aacid () kde ! org
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A Wednesday, July 06, 2011, g.sora va escriure:
> In data mercoledì 6 luglio 2011 16:41:02, Freek de Kruijf ha scritto:
> > 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.
> 
> Ok, now I better understand these things,
> thank you,
> Giovanni

I've fixed the string to have a proper singual form.

Albert

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