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number of format specifications in 'msgid' and 'msgstr' does not match

Asked by Donald Rogers

My understanding is that with a msgid such as:

_n: %n replacement made
%n replacements made

the line starting with _n: should not be translated. Is this so?
When I translated only the second line of the above msgid I got the message:
"number of format specifications in 'msgid' and 'msgstr' does not match".
Presumably this is because msgstr has one "%n" but msgid has two. Can the syntax checker be changed to allow for this, if I am right about it? Is it a bug?

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Curtis Hovey (sinzui) said : 		#1

I'm moving this question to the Launchpad Translations team.

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) said : 		#2

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Carlos Perelló Marín (carlos) said : 		#3

That's a limitation in Launchpad. Until we finish KDE plural form support, those strings cannot be translated in Launchpad. You can read more about this here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/rosetta/+bug/46982 If you want to track its status, subscribe to the bug report.

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