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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 19:05:26 -0600
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According to Bruno Haible on 10/24/2007 4:44 PM:
>>> "  ARG1 % ARG2       arithmetic remainder of ARG1 divided by ARG2\n"
>>>
> 
> xgettext marks it as c-format, because it looks like a C format string,
> and the possible negative effects of doing so (a mail from translator to
> programmer is needed) are smaller than the possible negative effects of
> not marking it as c-format (program crashes in particular locales).

To which I ask the (hopefully obvious followup) - if I don't like what the
hueristics picked, then how do I explicitly tell xgettext that I am sure
this is NOT a c-format, because it is used in fputs and not printf?  Is
there a magic /* xgettext: */ comment to do this?

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

Eric Blake             address@hidden
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