Re: Vietnamese .po file causes coreutils build failure [Re: bootstrap: TP urls changed

[Bruno Haible]

Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> There's still one coreutils po file for which 'msgfmt -c' reports a 
> fatal error, but I can't see anything wrong with the indicated 
> messages.  It might be a bug in 'msgfmt'.
> 
> coreutils/be.po:2298: number of format specifications in 'msgid' and 
> 'msgstr[0]' does not match
> coreutils/be.po:2306: number of format specifications in 'msgid' and 
> 'msgstr[0]' does not match
> msgfmt: found 2 fatal errors

msgfmt is right: When you look at the plural formula of this file, you
see that each of the three forms can occur for infinitely many numbers n.
coreutils/be.po:2298 has this:

#: src/dd.c:542
#, c-format
msgid "1 truncated record\n"
msgid_plural "%<PRIuMAX> truncated records\n"
msgstr[0] "1 абрэзаны запіс\n"
msgstr[1] "%<PRIuMAX> абрэзаных запісы\n"
msgstr[2] "%<PRIuMAX> абрэзаных запісаў\n"

Here the msgstr[0] presents wrong information for n = 21, 31, ...
because it pretends that n = 1.

Yes it is subtle, and I don't expect that translators would notice this
by themselves; this is why msgfmt does the check.

Bruno