Re: [Bug-tar] gettext 0.15 rejects latest traditional Chinese translation for GNU tar

[Paul Eggert]

"Sergey Poznyakoff" <address@hidden> writes:

> Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>>    zh_TW.po:124: number of format specifications in 'msgid' and 'msgstr[0]' 
>> does not match
>>    msgfmt: found 2 fatal errors
>
> This again sounds more like a bug report for GNU gettext. In my version
> of zh_TW.po the translation on line 124 is marked as fuzzy,

Ah, sorry, this is zh_TW.po after the tar bootstrap process is done with it,
which means the line numbers are all different.  The actual diagnostic is
about this translation:

   #: src/compare.c:96
   #, c-format
   msgid "Could only read %lu of %lu byte"
   msgid_plural "Could only read %lu of %lu bytes"
   msgstr[0] "只能讀取 %2%lu 位元組中的 %1%lu 個"

and this is indeed invalid, as the %2% should be a %2$, and likewise
for the %1%.  There are several other instances of the problem; this
is just the first one.  Since this leads to undefined behavior (could
be core dumps or worse) we should fix it rather than just distribute
the broken translation.