Re: Plural forms in translations

[Runa Bhattacharjee <runabh gmail com>]

Hi Claude,

Claude Paroz wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I noticed today that several translations (especially Marathi, Bengali,
> Hindi, Indonesian and others) have problems because of the plural form. 
> See e.g. http://l10n.gnome.org/languages/mr/gnome-2-22
>
> Please, do not commit translations into GNOME SVN without checking first
> that they pass 'msgfmt' check command:
>
> msgfmt -vvc -o /dev/null mr.po
>
> When there is a plural string, like this:
>
> msgid "There is a tab with errors"
> msgid_plural "There are %d tabs with errors"
>
> You have to add the %d format string in your translation (if it is
> present in the original string). At runtime, %d will be replaced by a
> real number.
>
> Please, correct the files as soon as possible.
>
>
>   
Thanks for bringing this up. I have been updating the bn_IN.po files the 
past week after passing it with msgfmt, but none of the files show an 
errors:

[runab runab file-roller]$ msgfmt -cv -o /dev/null bn_IN.po 
259 translated messages.

However, could this error be due to conflict in the Translator Editor settings (being set to Non-requirement of the plural form) and the header section of these files still containing the plural form equation (from an earlier time when people where still learning about po-file headers)?

Meanwhile, I am redoing the plural form messages. Won't make much difference though, but as long as it makes the red circles go away.

Thanks

regards
Runa




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