Errors in the coreutils-6.9 PO file

[Clytie Siddall]

Hi :)

I recently reviewed our translation of coreutils for the Translation  
Project. I noticed the following errors, which I thought you might  
like to fix in an upcoming release:
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1. This is a fatal error for msgfmt:

#: src/expr.c:133
#, c-format
msgid ""
"\n"
"  ARG1 * ARG2       arithmetic product of ARG1 and ARG2\n"
"  ARG1 / ARG2       arithmetic quotient of ARG1 divided by ARG2\n"
"  ARG1 % ARG2       arithmetic remainder of ARG1 divided by ARG2\n"

A bare percentage sign in a c-format string will be reported as an  
error in the translation. We can workaround this by making the string  
non-c-format, if that's appropriate in the code context.

If you don't have a full set of translations for coreutils, it may  
well be due to this error. Translators can't submit their files  
unless those files pass "msgfmt -cv", and any translation of this  
string won't.

Please advise developers not to use bare percentage signs in c-format  
strings. Escaping (as %%) is required.


2.

#: lib/gai_strerror.c:52
msgid "Servname not supported for ai_socktype"

"Servname" is ambiguous: "Service name" or "Server name"? You may  
well get inaccurate translations.


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.

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I hope this is useful. :)

from Clytie

Vietnamese Free Software Translation Team
http://vnoss.net/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=projects:l10n

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