On 28/08/2006, at 3:34 PM, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan wrote: > Hi Abel, > > On 8/28/06, Abel Cheung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 8/27/06, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > It's not me who find the complaints. It's just from others.
I have encountered the same problems with those files. These errors may be caught by gettext-0.15's useful capacity to point out spurious plural forms, but they are about string format. > >> For the real fix, you can remove any entry containing >> msgstr[1], leaving only msgstr[0]. > > Yes, I know that, as I said I had tried to do so to all PO's > under my maintenance. However, my question is for certain > cases where c-format string with plural form is shared > with some non-c-format. And there is actually _no_way_ > to cover both with a single msgstr[0] entry without messing > one of the two. Please read my first post for the details. > Exactly. If we kludge it and create a msgstr[0] which includes the placeholder, we still have the conflict between the two different types of strings. from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm Việt hóa phần mềm tự do) http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
