[Freeciv-Dev] Re: generating a pox

[Jeff Mallatt <jjm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2000/02/16 18:11 , Philippe Fremy wrote:
>
>When I generate a fr.pox from a fr.po, the fr.pox has fatal errors, according
>to msgfmt. The problem is that for all the strings from rulesets files and
>help.txt that contains a character '%', a line '#, c-format' was added before
>the translation, so msgfmt thinks then that it is a c-format string, and
>complains.
>
>So I need to get rid of all those c-format lines, but it's quite annoying to
>do it everytime I make a new fr.pox (particulary if I want to stay in sync
>with cvs). 
>
>I wonder if there is a way to tell msgfmt not to add those guessed
>c-format lines. 
>
>How do other translators manage this problem ?

I'm guessing you must be running msgfmt with the -c argument?  This does
extra, language-specific checking.  I believe other translators simply
don't use the -c argument.  To check for problems in the translations, you
can use the Perl script David wrote.  It's called check_po.pl, and is in
the po directory in the current CVS.

jjm