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Re: gettext-0.10.35, couple of issues


From: Bruno Haible
Subject: Re: gettext-0.10.35, couple of issues
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 20:24:13 +0200 (CEST)

Gisli Ottarsson wrote on 2001-01-23:

>    #: t1.c:21
>    msgid "Integer %d before the float %e\n"
>    msgstr "Yo buss dis. Float %1$e aftuh de integer %2$d. Sheeit!\n"
>
>   Here, the translator intended to first cite the float, which is
>   the second argument in the argument list and should have written 
>   %2$e.  msgfmt does not complain about this detectable error.

msgfmt would have complained if this message were marked with

   #, c-format

Why is this tag missing?

> If the program is run with the default keywords suppressed, without proposing
> new keywords, the program segfaults.

This is fixed in gettext-0.10.37. Thanks for the backtrace.

Bruno



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