bug#69995: closed (Untranslatable string)

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Your message dated Mon, 25 Mar 2024 16:24:28 +0000
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and subject line Re: bug#69995: Untranslatable string
has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #69995,
regarding Untranslatable string
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> Untranslatable string
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> Mon, 25 Mar 2024 15:02:37 +0100
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> While translating the new version of coreutils to Swedish, I came
> across this code from the end of chown-core.h:
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>   printf (_("\
>       --from=CURRENT_OWNER:CURRENT_GROUP\n\
>                          change the %sgroup of each file only if\n\
>                          its current owner and/or group match those specified\n\
>                          here.  Either may be omitted, in which case a match\n\
>                          is not required for the omitted attribute\n\
> "), user ? "owner and/or " : "");
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> As this stands, the part "owner and/or " will not be translated.
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> Simply marking that part too for translation is not a good solution, even
> if it would happen to work for Swedish. See
> https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/gettext/manual/gettext.html#Entire-sentences
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> Re: bug#69995: Untranslatable string
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> Mon, 25 Mar 2024 16:24:28 +0000
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> On 25/03/2024 14:02, Göran Uddeborg wrote:
> > While translating the new version of coreutils to Swedish, I came
> > across this code from the end of chown-core.h:
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> >    printf (_("\
> >        --from=CURRENT_OWNER:CURRENT_GROUP\n\
> >                           change the %sgroup of each file only if\n\
> >                           its current owner and/or group match those 
> > specified\n\
> >                           here.  Either may be omitted, in which case a match\n\
> >                           is not required for the omitted attribute\n\
> > "), user ? "owner and/or " : "");
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> > As this stands, the part "owner and/or " will not be translated.
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> > Simply marking that part too for translation is not a good solution, even
> > if it would happen to work for Swedish. See
> > https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/gettext/manual/gettext.html#Entire-sentences
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> Fixed with:
> https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/commit/26fd96a96
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> thanks,
> Pádraig
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