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

[Bruno Haible]

Update of bug #55811 (project gettext):

                  Status:                    None => Not a Bug              
             Assigned to:                    None => haible                 
             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed                 

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Follow-up Comment #1:

The documentation
https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/msgen-Invocation.html
says "The msgen program creates an English translation catalog. The input file
is the last created English PO file, or a PO Template file (generally created
by xgettext)."

You are invoking msgen with an argument that is a Japanese PO file, neither an
English PO file nor a PO Template file.

What are you trying to do? If you want a PO file that contains

nplurals=1

but also

msgid "Delete this photo from camera?"
msgid_plural "Delete these %d photos from camera?"
msgstr[0] "Delete these %d photos from camera?"

then that PO file is neither Japanese nor English. I don't see what you would
want to do with that result.

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