Re: Malay (ms-MY) string update

On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 11:31 +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> J.M. Maurer wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 23:29 +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> > > (You can ignore the single error that msgfmt reports in the
> > > above PO file, it's harmless.)
> >
> > It's actually a 'bug' in the po file. That line is NOT in
> > c-format, so you have to drop the "#, c-format" line. When you do
> > that, msgfmt -c will stop complaining :)
>
> Certainly. But the bug... is in the POT file, which is created by
> ui-extract.pl. The normal way to suppress such a mistaken c-format
> line is to add a /*xgettext:no-c-format*/ comment directly before
> the program line containing the message, but since ui-extract.pl is
> extracting the messages from a temporary file, I have no idea how
> to get the comment line there.

Neither do we :) Just remove it manually for now.

> And it would probably not even
> work, because ui-extract.pl doesn't seem to be using xgettext.

We had a proposal SoC project that would 'port' abiword to gettext, but
there were no takers. So we are stuck with the current system for a
while longer.

Cheers,
  Marc
Received on Tue May 27 00:19:27 2008