Re: [poedit-users] Error: duplicate message definition

On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 08:00 +0200, Samuel Murray (Groenkloof) wrote:
> The error message is rather obtuse, in my opinion.  I also encountered
> it in the long distant past and I could never figure out what it meant
> until fairly recently

Once again: the error comes from msgfmt. Poedit can only report it to
you, it cannot change it even if I agreed with you.

>  when it was specifically pointed out to me that
> valid PO files of the Gettext dialect 

There's no such thing as "Gettext dialect". PO files are key-value files
and as such, the keys (=msgids) cannot be duplicated, period. It's not a
property of some "dialect" as you imagine, it's the way the PO *format*
works. That's why the msgid is called msgid, as in "message identifier":
identifiers obviously have to be unique, otherwise they wouldn't
identify anything, would they?

> So, Georged, your PO file is simply not of the Gettext dialect.  

That would be "your PO file doesn't conform to the PO format".

> I agree (and I just tried it again) that the error message in PoEdit
> creates the impression that something awful has just happened, when in
> fact the message is merely informational.

No, it is not. An operation requested by the user (PO->MO compilation)
failed. That's an *error* and needs to be treated as such. 

> In fact, this error message has *nothing* to do with the translator.  By
> the time the translator opens the file in PoEdit, he's already toast.
> The error message is really meant for the project manager that gave
> the PO file to the translator in the first place.

Correct. So? 

> I don't understand why the default option in PoEdit is to generate a MO
> file anyway.  

Because it's sometimes convenient. Like for testing (translators do test
their translations in the app, don't they?). But I guess it should be
reverted -- judging from how many translators send me both PO and MO
files needlessly, it does confuse people less familiar with Gettext.


Regards,
Vaclav

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