Re: [PATCH/RFC] l10n: de.po: translate 39 new messages

Hi,

Thanks for Review!

2013/4/15 Christian Stimming [off-list ref]:

Thanks for the regular update! This is great work.

One issue with the plural form messages, though:

Am Montag, 15. April 2013, 18:27:40 schrieb Ralf Thielow:

quoted

 #: bundle.c:186
-#, fuzzy, c-format
+#, c-format
 msgid "The bundle contains this ref:"
 msgid_plural "The bundle contains these %d refs:"
-msgstr[0] "Das Paket enthält %d Referenz"
-msgstr[1] "Das Paket enthält %d Referenzen"
+msgstr[0] "Das Paket enthält diese Referenz:"
+msgstr[1] "Das Paket enthält diese %d Referenzen:"

The msgstr[0] must still contain a %d conversion specifier (which will be
filled with the number 1) even though the translated sentence wouldn't need
the 1 anymore. The previous msgstr[0] was correct; the English singular msgid
is not.

That made me wonder, too. I've played around a bit with this, and it seems
to be OK as long as one of those strings contain at least one format specifier.

Technical background: The ngettext function chooses only the string itself,
which will then be fed to printf() as a second step. If the printf sees more
variadic arguments than conversion specifiers in the string, it will be
unhappy. At least that's what I remembered about the ngettext things...

http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Advanced-gettext-
functions.html

Regards,

Christian