[bug-gettext] [bug #55811] msgen generates blank msgstr[0] if "nplurals=1; plural=0"

[Bruno Haible]

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #55811 (project gettext):

> The bug is a bug.
It's not a bug, because you are not giving to msgen the input that it expects
to get (according to the documentation).

> I don't know why you want to know it.
I asked because I want to understand what is the best way to improve the
gettext tools.

The suggestion you made would be implementable for Japanese, but not for other
locales such as Russian or Polish.

> I use it for automatic translation. Write msgstr messages to a HTML file ->
Translate it by Google Translate -> Copy the translated texts and paste them
to a text file -> Convert it to a PO file.
There are surely ways to do this without 'msgen'.

Using automatic translation as a first step towards a good translation is an
interesting approach. Unfortunately it does not make sense for the GNU gettext
tools to support this, because the Google Translation services are not free
(1. they are cloud services, 2. the user needs to pay for them, see
https://cloud.google.com/translate/pricing ), and I am not aware of free
translation services of reasonable quality.

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