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Accidental format string prevents translation

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From: Ivan Vilata i Balaguer <ivan <at> selidor.net>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Accidental format string prevents translation
Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 00:48:37 +0200

Hi, in coreutils 8.17 (and in current git), `fmt.c` contains the following
help line:

    -g, --goal=WIDTH          goal width (default of 93% of width)

The percent is interpreted (at least by `msgfmt`) as the start of a `%o`
format string, thus translations are forced to have an "o" after `93%` which
makes things quite difficult. ;)

Changing `93%` by `93%%` should do the job.  Thanks,

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From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: Ivan Vilata i Balaguer <ivan <at> selidor.net>
Cc: 11494 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#11494: Accidental format string prevents translation
Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 17:10:13 -0600

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forcemerge 11470 11494
thanks

On 05/16/2012 04:48 PM, Ivan Vilata i Balaguer wrote:
> Hi, in coreutils 8.17 (and in current git), `fmt.c` contains the following
> help line:
> 
>     -g, --goal=WIDTH          goal width (default of 93% of width)
> 
> The percent is interpreted (at least by `msgfmt`) as the start of a `%o`
> format string, thus translations are forced to have an "o" after `93%` which
> makes things quite difficult. ;)
> 
> Changing `93%` by `93%%` should do the job.  Thanks,

Thanks for the report; however, you're the fifth person to report this
in 48 hours, and it has already been fixed in current git:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=e2bd5cda0a34

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