Re: [poedit-users] How to use "%" in the string

Hi,

On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 22:32 +0900, tai wrote:
> When I saved a ja.po(*1) file of bbPress (*2), Poedit 1.4.1 got an
> error which says "found 1 fatal error" and log.txt says:
> ****
> : /Users/tai/Desktop/ja.po:671: 'msgstr' is not a valid PHP format
> string, unlike 'msgid'. Reason: The character that terminates the
> directive number 1 is not a valid conversion specifier.
> : /Applications/Poedit.app/Contents/MacOS/msgfmt: found 1 fatal error

You may want to file a GNU gettext bug about this (at
http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gettext/), because even though it
correctly (presumably) says the string is wrong, the "unlike 'msgid'"
part is clearly wrong here.

> While creating .mo with msgfmt command on the terminal got no error.

The error above comes from msgfmt. You didn't get the error only because
you didn't use the --check flag:

$ msgfmt --check -o /dev/null ja.po
ja.po:671: 'msgstr' is not a valid PHP format string, unlike 'msgid'.
Reason: In the directive number 1, the character 'i' is not a valid
conversion specifier.
msgfmt: found 1 fatal error
$

> I guess "%" is a kind of a special character used for directives and
> needs to be escaped or something but I have no idea how to do it, so I
> left the msgstr blank and got no error now.

Note that the PO file was saved correctly despite the error, it's just
that MO file wasn't compiled from it by Poedit.

> So could you tell me how to use "%" in the string?

I don't know. You'll have to either ask bbPress folks or find it in PHP
documentation. Looks like either bbPress mistake or incorrect flagging
of this string as "php-format" to me.

> Also I would like to know whether the cause is bbPress's string or
> Poedit, because the msgfmt command got no error.

The former (for once).

Regards,
Vaclav

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