Op Ma, 2009-09-07 om 18:29 -0700 skryf Mark Doliner: > Hi! > > Elliott 'QuLogic' Sales de Andrade noticed that a few of our > translations had mismatched format specifiers (the %s and %d bits in > some strings). This can cause a crash when the string is formatted. > For example, if you simply change the order of %s and %d then Pidgin > will try to print a number as a string, which is bad. This email is a > friendly reminder to please be careful with c-format strings. > > You can run the check_po.pl script to detect these problems. This > script can be found in the po/ subdirectory of the Pidgin source code. > > check_po.pl <your_language.po>
What does this do differently than msgfmt -cv? All translators should be checking that before submitting translations. To my best knowledge, in the GNOME project there is a pre-commit hook to disallow commits of .po files that don't pass msgfmt -cv. Apart from avoiding crashing situations, I would encourage translators to also look at pofilter which allows for testing several other issues that might help to improve quality: http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/toolkit/pofilter Keep well Friedel -- Recently on my blog: http://translate.org.za/blogs/friedel/en/content/support-afrikaans-google-translate _______________________________________________ Translators mailing list [email protected] http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/translators
