I got this notification from Transifex, forwarding a query from one of you,
and not sure how to respond at that site, so I write to this mailing list:
"
Error:~%~%Frequency (~a Hz) is too high for track sample rate.~%~%~ Track
sample rate is ~a Hz~%~ Frequency must be less than ~a Hz.
1%F is recognized as placeholder - no problem for Dutch translation because
"frequentie" (nl) starts with f like "frequency", but maybe other languages
will have problems.
"
Either I misunderstand the report, or the translator does not understand
that this is a Lisp-format string, not C-format. So % does not have the
usual meaning.
The Lisp function called format changes ~% to a newline, so ~%Frequency
becomes just a newline and then the word -- no relation to the C format %f
sequence.
Also ~~ becomes ~, and ~ followed by newline is just a break in the string
to make the format easier to read, and is simply deleted, with following
whitespace characters, by format.
The ~a sequence is the only placeholder. Unlike with C, there is no need
in Lisp to distinguish placeholders for strings and for numbers with
different sequences.
Or is it the .po file editor that is misunderstanding the input and making
some incorrect warnings about this string? Perhaps then there is a better
editing program to use instead!
PRL
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