Hi, My language has no plural form. And I recently got some complaint that having more than one msgstr[] while declaring nplurals=1 blocks the build due to gettext error. So, I try to examine if there are other such errors left in any other packages.
Actually, gedit was the one that gave me the impression of the needs to keep multiple msgstr[] entries, even if nplurals is 1. For example: #: ../gedit/dialogs/gedit-close-confirmation-dialog.c:451 #: ../gedit/dialogs/gedit-close-confirmation-dialog.c:472 #, c-format msgid "If you don't save, changes from the last hour will be permanently lost." msgid_plural "" "If you don't save, changes from the last %d hours will be permanently lost." This comes from the merge of two string occurrences, one is c-format and the other is not: #: ../gedit/dialogs/gedit-close-confirmation-dialog.c:451 secondary_msg = g_strdup (_("If you don't save, changes from the last hour " "will be permanently lost.")); and: #: ../gedit/dialogs/gedit-close-confirmation-dialog.c:472 secondary_msg = g_strdup_printf ( ngettext ("If you don't save, changes from the last hour " "will be permanently lost.", "If you don't save, changes from the last %d hours " "will be permanently lost.", hours), hours); So, if I have to choose only one translation, one of the two will be messed up. That is, with %d in the translation, the former case will confuse user with "%d" appearing in the string; without %d, the latter will loose the number information. The same appears here as well: #: ../gedit/gedit-commands-file.c:1184 ../gedit/gedit-commands-file.c:1205 How should I do with this? -- Theppitak Karoonboonyanan http://linux.thai.net/~thep/ _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n