Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] l10n: de.po: translate 39 new messages

From: Thomas Rast <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 10:09:29 +0200

Ralf Thielow <[email-masked]> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Thanks for review!
>
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 9:26 PM, Christian Stimming <[email-masked]>wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the regular update! This is great work.
>>
>> One issue with the plural form messages, though:
>>
>> Am Montag, 15. April 2013, 18:27:40 schrieb Ralf Thielow:
>> >  #: bundle.c:186
>> > -#, fuzzy, c-format
>> > +#, c-format
>> >  msgid "The bundle contains this ref:"
>> >  msgid_plural "The bundle contains these %d refs:"
>> > -msgstr[0] "Das Paket enthält %d Referenz"
>> > -msgstr[1] "Das Paket enthält %d Referenzen"
>> > +msgstr[0] "Das Paket enthält diese Referenz:"
>> > +msgstr[1] "Das Paket enthält diese %d Referenzen:"
>>
>> The msgstr[0] must still contain a %d conversion specifier (which will be
>> filled with the number 1) even though the translated sentence wouldn't need
>> the 1 anymore. The previous msgstr[0] was correct; the English singular
>> msgid
>> is not.
>>
> That made me wonder, too. I've played around a bit with this, and it seems
> to be OK as long as one of those strings contain at least one format
> specifier.

C printf() only knows about the number and types of arguments from the
format string, so *ignoring* arguments is not a problem for correctness.

-- 
Thomas Rast
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