Hi, On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 04:33:59PM +0200, Mogens Jaeger wrote: > When I in emacs runs the 'Validate' command, on the sane-backends da.po > file, I get the folloving error: > > cd ~/Oversaettelse/Sane-backends-1.0.15/ > msgfmt --statistics -c -v -o /dev/null > /home/mogens/Oversaettelse/Sane-backends-1.0.15/sane-backends.da.po > /home/mogens/Oversaettelse/Sane-backends-1.0.15/sane-backends.da.po:1268: > 'msgstr' is not a valid C format string, unlike 'msgid'. Reason: In the > directive number 1, the character 'b' is not a valid conversion specifier.
I have also gotten similar messages while updating .de.po. As far as I can see xgettext tries to be intelligent by marking everything that containts a % as c-format. It's not intelligent enough to really find out which string is intended as a format string and which is not. We could use the flag option for xgettext: $(XGETTEXT) -dsane-backends -kSANE_I18N --flag=SANE_I18N:1:no-c-format $(TMP_FILE_DIR)/*.* That marks all strings as "no-c-format". However, I don't know how compatible that is. Other ideas? Bye, Henning
