[Yum-devel] [PATCH] Add po/Makevars for gettext plural handling

[Jeremy Katz]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 2:54 PM, James Antill <james at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 21:08 +0200, Ville-Pekka Vainio wrote:
>> - the arguments are unnamed, which xgettext actually warns about if run
>> on its own:
>>
>> "'msgid' format string with unnamed arguments cannot be properly
>> localized: The translator cannot reorder the arguments. Please consider
>> using a format string with named arguments, and a mapping instead of a
>> tuple for the arguments."
>
>  Yeh, this is a known issue. It's not obvious which way to go though, we
> have at least three options:
[snip]
> ...I have preferences here but can't speak for everyone. We know we need
> to come to some kind of conclusion "soonish", but you will probably be
> the first person really pushing for it.

Does msgfmt -c do the right thing to ensure that the format strings
given in the translated versions match with the expected format
strings now?  The last time I looked, it didn't do so for python which
(to me) was a strong reason _against_ using any of the format string
methods for string substitution.  If msgfmt -c doesn't catch it[1],
then the outcome of a typo in a po file is a crash for users of that
language :-/

- Jeremy

[1] Well, arguably if msgfmt -c doesn't catch it, one could write a
tool which would.  But I haven't seen that either