[bug #65858] msgfmt -c doesn't detect broken format specifiers in translations

[Bruno Haible]

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #65858 (group gettext):

In your example "foo %d" vs "bar %id" the translator has chosen to use %i
instead of %d, which is OK since %i and %d are equivalent. Yes, it means that
not all typos can get detected by 'msgfmt -c'. Only the typos that may cause a
crash at runtime are guaranteed to be detected by 'msgfmt -c'.


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