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Re: [PATCH] po: fix replacement of %m in sed programs
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Daniel Kiper |
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Re: [PATCH] po: fix replacement of %m in sed programs |
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Tue, 3 Mar 2020 15:21:33 +0100 |
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NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2) |
On Mon, Mar 02, 2020 at 03:03:32PM -0500, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> When running make dist, I hit this error:
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> rm -f address@hidden && /usr/bin/gmsgfmt -c --statistics --verbose -o
> address@hidden address@hidden
> address@hidden:5312: 'msgstr' is not a valid C format string, unlike 'msgid'.
> Reason: The character that terminates the directive number 3 is not a valid
> conversion specifier.
> /usr/bin/gmsgfmt: found 1 fatal error
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> This was caused by "%m" being replaced with foreign Unicode characters.
> For example:
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> msgid "cannot rename the file %s to %s: %m"
> msgstr "ﺹﺎﻨﻧﻮﺗ ﺮﻌﻧﺎﻤﻋ ﺖﻬﻋ ﻒִﻴﻠﻋ %s ﺕﻭ %s: %ﻡ"
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> Mimic the workaround used for "%s" by reversing the replacement of "%m" at
> the end of the sed programs.
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> Signed-off-by: Mike Gilbert <address@hidden>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <address@hidden>
Daniel