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bug in 8.17 pot file

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11483: closed (Problem with translation of coreutils 8.17)
Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 05:34:02 +0000

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From: Primoz PETERLIN <primozz.peterlin <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org, translation-i18n <at> lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Problem with translation of coreutils 8.17
Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 21:57:07 +0200

Hello,

Coreutils 8.17 introduced a small change in the message catalogue
which causes considerable problems to translators.

The part which causes problems is:

#: src/fmt.c:285
#, c-format
msgid ""
"  -t, --tagged-paragraph    indentation of first line different from second\n"
"  -u, --uniform-spacing     one space between words, two after sentences\n"
"  -w, --width=WIDTH         maximum line width (default of 75 columns)\n"
"  -g, --goal=WIDTH          goal width (default of 93% of width)\n"
msgstr ""

Apparently, msgfmt interprets "% o" in the help text of the --goal
option as a format specifier. This means that the translations will be
rejected unless the translation also contains the same sequence: %
being followed by a space, being followed by a small o.

All the best,
Primož

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From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
Cc: 11470-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#11472: Message src/fmt.c:285 marked as c-formatted string
	erroneously
Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 07:33:00 +0200

Eric Blake wrote:
> merge 11470 11472
> thanks
>
> On 05/14/2012 01:27 PM, Petr Pisar wrote:
>> The problem is such string does not pass through msgfmt tool while compiling
>> the catalog because the '% ' is not a valid printf sequence.
>>
>> Solution is to suppress the auto-detection by adding /*xgettext:no-c-format*/
>> before the fputs() line in the source code.
>
> Thanks.  You're the third person to report this today, but the first to
> provide a potential patch.  Are you comfortable submitting that fix in
> 'git format-patch' form with a proper commit message?  If not, we will
> probably do it on your behalf in the next 24 hours or so.

Thanks for all the replies and for merging those, Eric.

I wrote the patch.  As expected, it was more work to collect and
insert names in THANKS.in than to make the actual change ;-)
Note that Göran's name is already in the generated THANKS file,
so I didn't add it below.

If anyone listed prefers a different spelling of name or email,
just let us know.

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From: Jim Meyering <meyering <at> redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 07:26:36 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] maint: tell xgettext that fputs arg "93% of..." is not a C
 format string
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* src/fmt.c (usage): Add a comment to tell
xgettext that the "% o" in fputs argument string of "...93% of..."
is not a C format string.  Reported by Toomas Soome, Göran Uddeborg,
Petr Pisar, Primoz PETERLIN and Chusslove Illich via
http://bugs.gnu.org/11470
---
 THANKS.in | 4 ++++
 src/fmt.c | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/THANKS.in b/THANKS.in
index 5c7dde8..6c826af 100644
--- a/THANKS.in
+++ b/THANKS.in
@@ -121,6 +121,7 @@ Christian Rose                      menthos <at> menthos.com
 Christian von Roques                roques <at> pond.sub.org
 Christophe LYON                     christophe.lyon <at> st.com
 Chuck Hedrick                       hedrick <at> klinzhai.rutgers.edu
+Chusslove Illich                    caslav.ilic <at> gmx.net
 Clark Morgan                        cmorgan <at> aracnet.com
 Clement Wang                        clem.wang <at> overture.com
 Colin Plumb                         colin <at> nyx.net
@@ -482,6 +483,7 @@ Peter Horst                         peter <at> ointment.org
 Peter Moulder                       reiter <at> netspace.net.au
 Peter Samuelson                     psamuels <at> sampo.creighton.edu
 Peter Seebach                       seebs <at> taniemarie.solon.com
+Petr Pisar                          petr.pisar <at> atlas.cz
 Petr Uzel                           petr.uzel <at> suse.cz
 Petter Reinholdtsen                 pere <at> hungry.com
 Phelippe Neveu                      pneveu <at> pcigeomatics.com
@@ -496,6 +498,7 @@ Piotr Gackiewicz                    gacek <at> intertele.pl
 Piotr Kwapulinski                   kwap <at> univ.gda.pl
 Prashant TR                         tr <at> eth.net
 Priit Jõerüüt                       jemm4jemm <at> yahoo.com
+Primoz PETERLIN                     primozz.peterlin <at> gmail.com
 Rainer Orth                         ro <at> TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE
 Ralf W. Stephan                     stephan <at> tmt.de
 Ralph Loader                        loader <at> maths.ox.ac.uk
@@ -593,6 +596,7 @@ Ton Nijkes                          ton <at> murphy.nl
 Tony Kocurko                        akocurko <at> mun.ca
 Tony Leneis                         tony <at> plaza.ds.adp.com
 Tony Robinson                       ajr <at> eng.cam.ac.uk
+Toomas Soome                        Toomas.Soome <at> Elion.ee
 Toralf Förster                      toralf.foerster <at> gmx.de
 Torbjorn Granlund                   tege <at> nada.kth.se
 Torbjorn Lindgren                   tl <at> funcom.no
diff --git a/src/fmt.c b/src/fmt.c
index 3da198e..3e93654 100644
--- a/src/fmt.c
+++ b/src/fmt.c
@@ -281,10 +281,12 @@ Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.\n\
   -p, --prefix=STRING       reformat only lines beginning with STRING,\n\
                               reattaching the prefix to reformatted lines\n\
   -s, --split-only          split long lines, but do not refill\n\
 "),
              stdout);
+      /* Tell xgettext that the "% o" below is not a printf-style
+         format string:  xgettext:no-c-format */
       fputs (_("\
   -t, --tagged-paragraph    indentation of first line different from second\n\
   -u, --uniform-spacing     one space between words, two after sentences\n\
   -w, --width=WIDTH         maximum line width (default of 75 columns)\n\
   -g, --goal=WIDTH          goal width (default of 93% of width)\n\
--
1.7.10.2.520.g6a4a482

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