Re: Not a c-format in localized msgid

[Joel E. Denny]

On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Jorma Karvonen wrote:

> it looks like the problem was not so simple that I had supposed. But I
> had this correct (no fuzzy) in the previous bison version:
> 
> http://translationproject.org/PO-files/fi/bison-2.4.1a.fi.po
> 
> #: src/reader.c:134 src/symtab.c:141 src/symtab.c:149 src/symtab.c:912
> #: src/symtab.c:925 src/symtab.c:938 src/symtab.c:951
> #, c-format
> msgid "previous declaration"
> msgstr "edellinen esittely"

This says "previous declaration".  In your previous email, you said 
"previous definition".  Is this the source of the confusion?

> When an now .fi.po file was generated, it was marked as a "fuzzy", and
> I supposed  that it was because of that c-format definition.

Could the fuzzy mark be indicating that the string is new but is similar 
to an existing string?

> And when I send a new translation to the translation robot yesterday,
> I left that "#, c-format" line away, but the translation robot fixed
> it back according to .pot file:
> 
> http://translationproject.org/PO-files/fi/bison-2.4.1b.fi.po
> 
> #: src/reader.c:134 src/symtab.c:141 src/symtab.c:149 src/symtab.c:912
> #: src/symtab.c:925 src/symtab.c:938 src/symtab.c:951
> #, c-format
> msgid "previous declaration"
> msgstr "edellinen esittely"
> 
> Now it is not marked as "fuzzy"

Perhaps because you translated it?

> but I suppose that when the next .pot
> file version will be generated, it will again be marked as a fuzzy
> because that c-format definition is still in that .pot file. But I can
> be wrong.

I'm hoping it will be fine now that it's translated.

I'm making guesses based on the gettext manual, so I could be very wrong.  
I have no experience here.