gettext plurals errors (was: Re: possible bug in gtk+/po/hy.po

[Clytie Siddall <clytie riverland net au>]

On 03/12/2006, at 10:22 AM, Andre Klapper wrote:

> Am Samstag, den 02.12.2006, 23:22 +0100 schrieb Christian Rose:
> > On 11/28/06, David Loyall <david loyall gmail com> wrote:
> > > Thanks for your report. However, in order to make sure that the
> > correct translators can have a look at this, please also file a  
> > proper
> > bug report in our bug tracker at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/.
>
> this issue has been reported already:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=377204
>
> it's fixed in HEAD, but not in the gnome-2-10 branch.

gettext-0.15 and later reports an error when there are any empty  
plurals fields, or when the number of plurals fields (empty or  
complete) doesn't match the plurals header of the PO file.

I've found this very handy in eliminating spurious plurals fields in  
our files, but it can also result in errors being reported where they  
weren't before, which can be confusing.

If the plurals header is:

"Plural-Forms: nplurals=1; plural=0;\n"

(no plurals), as in my language and many others, then simply deleting  
any msgstr[1] fields from the PO file can eliminate this type of error.

from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm  
Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN

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