Claude Paroz wrote: > Le vendredi 07 mars 2008 à 15:15 +0530, Runa Bhattacharjee a écrit : > >> 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: >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] file-roller]$ msgfmt -cv -o /dev/null bn_IN.po >> 259 translated messages. >> > > Weird. > $ msgfmt -vvc -o /dev/null bn_IN.po > bn_IN.po:124: number of format specifications in 'msgid' and 'msgstr[1]' > does not match > msgfmt: found 1 fatal error > 259 translated messages. > > $ msgfmt --version > msgfmt (GNU gettext-tools) 0.16.1 > > In the particular case of file-roller bn_IN.po, the problem is that > msgstr[1] (translated plural form) is empty at line 125. > > > Yup, got it now. The msgfmt version I was using is this: $ msgfmt --version msgfmt (GNU gettext-tools) 0.14.6
The above error is thrown on my local file with the 0.16.1 version. In any case, for languages which do not have a plural form, the problem might still persist in case the editor settings are set to "not require the plural forms". I get the following screen with only one placeholder for the msgstr string. [1] regards Runa [1] http://runa.randomink.org/misc/file-roller-bn_IN%20-%20KBabel.png -- blog: http://runab.livejournal.com irc: mishti or runa_b on Freenode _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
