[Xfce-i18n] Maybe bug in translation for Thunar (Croatian)

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Tue Feb 10 21:52:11 CET 2015


On 10.02.2015. 21:38, Edin Veskovic wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm one of the translators for Croatian language. Maybe this is gettext
> bug. I get automated messages from transifex at xfce.org that msgfmt
> --check failed for Thunar master:
>
>> Commit of the by you modified translation was not successfull.
>>
>> msgfmt --check, reported the following issue:
>>
>> ====
>> po/hr.po.new:224: number of format specifications in 'msgid_plural'
>> and 'msgstr[0]' does not match
>> msgfmt: found 1 fatal error
>> ====
>>
>> Please resolve this issue at transifex.com; for now your translation
>> will
>> be skipped.
> I downloaded .po file and tested. It expects %u in 'msgstr[0]' when
> there is no %u in msgid only in msgid_plural. It seems this is problem
> for languages that have three translation strings (singular, plural,
> other). msgfmt --check for translations like Italian or Spanish, which
> only have 2 strings (singular and plural), doesn't report this problem.
>
> Here is the section from .po file:
>
> #: ../thunar/thunar-application.c:1813
> #, c-format
> msgid ""
> "Are you sure that you want to permanently\n"
> "delete the selected file?"
> msgid_plural ""
> "Are you sure that you want to permanently\n"
> "delete the %u selected files?"
> msgstr[0] ""
> "Jeste li sigurni da želite trajno\n"
> "izbrisati odabranu datoteku?"
> msgstr[1] ""
> "Jeste li sigurni da želite trajno\n"
> "izbrisati %u odabranih datoteka?"
> msgstr[2] ""
> "Jeste li sigurni da želite trajno\n"
> "izbrisati %u odabrane datoteke?"
>
> If I add %u in msgstr[0] error is not reported. I'm new to this so i
> apologize if I'm not clear enough or this is common knowladge.
>
> Cheers,
> Edin Veskovic
>
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  Samo dodaj i u prvo lice jednine %u. Nije logično, li tako mora, bez 
njega je greška.



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