[PATCH] git-gui: add a part about format strings in po/README
This should help tranlators that need to reorder words and strings. Original explanation by Christian Stimming.
Also remove unneeded backslashes.
Signed-off-by: Michele Ballabio <barra_cuda@katamail.com>
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On Sunday 03 August 2008, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote:
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> Shawn,
> a simple make in the git-gui-i18n repository fails with the following msg:
> paolo@paolo-desktop:~/git-gui-i18n$ make
> GITGUI_VERSION = 0.9.GITGUI-dirty
> * new locations or Tcl/Tk interpreter
> GEN git-gui
> INDEX lib/
> MSGFMT po/bg.msg 391 translated.
> MSGFMT po/de.msg 383 translated, 5 fuzzy, 3 untranslated.
> MSGFMT po/es.msg 122 translated, 269 untranslated.
> MSGFMT po/fr.msg 391 translated.
> MSGFMT po/hu.msg 391 translated.
> MSGFMT po/it.msg make: *** [po/it.msg] Error 1
>
> Before and after the following patch :-)
I think that's this commit: c6fb29db5a50df150280b641d3c2a6703589b529 (Fixed usage of positional parameters in it.po and ja.po). It didn't fix anything and was harmful instead.
Maybe this patch could be useful.
po/README | 17 +++++++++++------
1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/po/README b/po/README
index 5e77a7d..595bbf5 100644
--- a/po/README
+++ b/po/README
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ matching msgid lines. A few tips:
"printf()"-like functions. Make sure "%s", "%d", and "%%" in your
translated messages match the original.
- When you have to change the order of words, you can add "<number>\$"
+ When you have to change the order of words, you can add "<number>$"
between '%' and the conversion ('s', 'd', etc.) to say "<number>-th
parameter to the format string is used at this point". For example,
if the original message is like this:
@@ -111,12 +111,17 @@ matching msgid lines. A few tips:
and if for whatever reason your translation needs to say weight first
and then length, you can say something like:
- "WEIGHT IS %2\$d, LENGTH IS %1\$d"
+ "WEIGHT IS %2$d, LENGTH IS %1$d"
- The reason you need a backslash before dollar sign is because
- this is a double quoted string in Tcl language, and without
- it the letter introduces a variable interpolation, which you
- do not want here.
+ A format specification with a '*' (asterisk) refers to *two* arguments
+ instead of one, hence the succeeding argument number is two higher
+ instead of one. So, a message like this
+
+ "%s ... %*i of %*i %s (%3i%%)"
+
+ is equivalent to
+
+ "%1$s ... %2$*i of %4$*i %6$s (%7$3i%%)"
- A long message can be split across multiple lines by ending the
string with a double quote, and starting another string on the next
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