GNU bug report logs - #11494
Accidental format string prevents translation

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Ivan Vilata i Balaguer <ivan <at> selidor.net>

Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 22:56:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 11470, 11471, 11472, 11483, 11740

Done: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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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,

-- 
Ivan Vilata i Balaguer -- https://elvil.net/
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