Subject: Re: bug#69995: Untranslatable string
From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
To: Göran Uddeborg <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2024 16:24:28 +0000
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

On 25/03/2024 14:02, Göran Uddeborg wrote:
> While translating the new version of coreutils to Swedish, I came
> across this code from the end of chown-core.h:
> 
>    printf (_("\
>        --from=CURRENT_OWNER:CURRENT_GROUP\n\
>                           change the %sgroup of each file only if\n\
>                           its current owner and/or group match those specified\n\
>                           here.  Either may be omitted, in which case a match\n\
>                           is not required for the omitted attribute\n\
> "), user ? "owner and/or " : "");
> 
> As this stands, the part "owner and/or " will not be translated.
> 
> Simply marking that part too for translation is not a good solution, even
> if it would happen to work for Swedish. See
> https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/gettext/manual/gettext.html#Entire-sentences

Fixed with:
https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/commit/26fd96a96

thanks,
Pádraig