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Problem with translation of coreutils 8.17

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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: Chusslove Illich <caslav.ilic <at> gmx.net>
To: translation-i18n <at> lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org, Primoz PETERLIN <primozz.peterlin <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Translation-i18n] Problem with translation of coreutils 8.17
Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 23:14:53 +0200

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> [: Primoz PETERLIN :]
> Apparently, msgfmt interprets "% o" in the help text of the --goal option
> as a format specifier.

When that happens, you add such a comment line just before the problematic
gettext call:

  /* xgettext: no-c-format */
  gettext("...93% of width...")

The extracted message will then have no-c-format flag instead of c-format,
thus not triggering format validation. This is documented in section 4.6 of
Gettext manual.

-- 
Chusslove Illich (Часлав Илић)

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From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: Chusslove Illich <caslav.ilic <at> gmx.net>
Cc: translation-i18n <at> lists.sourceforge.net, primozz.peterlin <at> gmail.com,
	11483 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#11483: [Translation-i18n] Problem with translation of
	coreutils 8.17
Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 22:17:02 -0600

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merge 11470 11483
thanks

On 05/15/2012 03:14 PM, Chusslove Illich wrote:
>> [: Primoz PETERLIN :]
>> Apparently, msgfmt interprets "% o" in the help text of the --goal option
>> as a format specifier.
> 
> When that happens, you add such a comment line just before the problematic
> gettext call:
> 
>   /* xgettext: no-c-format */
>   gettext("...93% of width...")
> 
> The extracted message will then have no-c-format flag instead of c-format,
> thus not triggering format validation. This is documented in section 4.6 of
> Gettext manual.

This is the fourth report of the same issue within 48 hours, and second
mention of the solution, but still no one has submitted the solution as
an actual patch.  We will get the problem fixed, but an actual patch
would make it easier.

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Eric Blake   eblake <at> redhat.com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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