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Re: Errors in the coreutils-6.9 PO file


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: Errors in the coreutils-6.9 PO file
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 06:39:04 -0600
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According to Clytie Siddall on 10/24/2007 2:37 AM:

Hello, Clytie, and thanks for the report.  I've split up my replies, since
they are relevant to different lists.

> 3.
> 
> #: src/df.c:943
> #, c-format
> msgid "%scannot read table of mounted file systems"
> 
> - %scannot
> + %s cannot
> 
> ?
> 
> Placeholders not delimited from text can also cause fatal msgfmt errors.

Here, the intent was to prefix the message with an optional translated
_("Warning: ") or "", but perhaps the right fix is to instead provide two
strings, one with the prefix and one without, rather than using %s to add
the prefix?

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             address@hidden
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