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

Thank you very much for your prompt reply. :-)

I will ask bbPress folks about it and then file the bug.

Thanks again,

Tai

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 10:51 PM, Vaclav Slavik <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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