Re: Translating plural forms with different c-formats

["Abel Cheung" <abelcheung gmail com>]

Hi Theppitak,

On 8/27/06, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan <thep linux thai net> wrote:
> My language has no plural form. And I recently got some
> complaint that having more than one msgstr[] while
> declaring nplurals=1 blocks the build due to  gettext error.
> So, I try to examine if there are other such errors left in
> any other packages.

I'm afraid you are using gettext >= 0.15, as it is more strict in
checking plural form and mark inconsistent Plural-Forms and
actually translation as error. gettext < 0.15 just ignore it and
wouldn't complain.

For the real fix, you can remove any entry containing
msgstr[1], leaving only msgstr[0].

Abel


> Actually, gedit was the one that gave me the impression
> of the needs to keep multiple msgstr[] entries, even if
> nplurals is 1.
>
> For example:
>
> #: ../gedit/dialogs/gedit-close-confirmation-dialog.c:451
> #: ../gedit/dialogs/gedit-close-confirmation-dialog.c:472
> #, c-format
> msgid "If you don't save, changes from the last hour will be permanently lost."
> msgid_plural ""
> "If you don't save, changes from the last %d hours will be permanently lost."
>
> This comes from the merge of two string occurrences, one is c-format
> and the other is not:
>
> #: ../gedit/dialogs/gedit-close-confirmation-dialog.c:451
>                 secondary_msg = g_strdup (_("If you don't save,
> changes from the last hour "
>                                                     "will be
> permanently lost."));
>
> and:
>
> #: ../gedit/dialogs/gedit-close-confirmation-dialog.c:472
>                 secondary_msg = g_strdup_printf (
>                                         ngettext ("If you don't save,
> changes from the last hour "
>                                                   "will be permanently lost.",
>                                                   "If you don't save,
> changes from the last %d hours "
>                                                   "will be permanently lost.",
>                                                   hours),
>                                         hours);
>
> So, if I have to choose only one translation, one of the two
> will be messed up. That is, with %d in the translation, the former
> case will confuse user with "%d" appearing in the string;
> without %d, the latter will loose the number information.
>
> The same appears here as well:
> #: ../gedit/gedit-commands-file.c:1184 ../gedit/gedit-commands-file.c:1205
>
> How should I do with this?
>
> --
> Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
> http://linux.thai.net/~thep/
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