Le vendredi 07 mars 2008 à 16:14 +0530, Runa Bhattacharjee a écrit : > 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]
Language with no plural form should use the string "Plural-Forms: nplurals=1; plural=0;" (1) and not tweak the po editor. Is it the case with your language? (1) http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Plural-forms.html Claude _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
