Re: [Zh-l10n] Re: [Bug-tar] gettext 0.15 rejects latest traditional Chinese translation for GNU tar

[Abel Cheung]

Hi all,

Reply below....


On 8/9/06, Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> >>    zh_TW.po:124: number of format specifications in 'msgid' and 'msgstr[0]' 
> does not match
> >>    msgfmt: found 2 fatal errors
> >
> > This again sounds more like a bug report for GNU gettext. In my version
> > of zh_TW.po the translation on line 124 is marked as fuzzy,
>
> Ah, sorry, this is zh_TW.po after the tar bootstrap process is done with it,
> which means the line numbers are all different.  The actual diagnostic is
> about this translation:
>
>    #: src/compare.c:96
>    #, c-format
>    msgid "Could only read %lu of %lu byte"
>    msgid_plural "Could only read %lu of %lu bytes"
>    msgstr[0] "只能讀取 %2%lu 位元組中的 %1%lu 個"
>
> and this is indeed invalid, as the %2% should be a %2$, and likewise
> for the %1%.  There are several other instances of the problem; this
> is just the first one.  Since this leads to undefined behavior (could
> be core dumps or worse) we should fix it rather than just distribute
> the broken translation.

Yes, this is indeed wrong, and likely because of my inadequate
knowledge on format specifier during earlier days (I was the previous
translator). If Wei-Lun Chao is willing or have time to update it this
would be best; otherwise I can provide a patch to the translation too.

Abel


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