Plural message gives error - in digikam.po

[Albert Astals Cid]

Digikam developers, can you please fix your messages?

./core/app/main/digikamapp.cpp:620: warning: Although being used in a format string position, the msgid is not a valid KDE format string. Reason: The string refers to argument number 3 but ignores the arguments 1 and 2.
./core/app/main/digikamapp.cpp:633: warning: Although being used in a format string position, the msgid is not a valid KDE format string. Reason: The string refers to argument number 3 but ignores the arguments 1 and 2.
./core/app/main/digikamapp.cpp:641: warning: Although being used in a format string position, the msgid is not a valid KDE format string. Reason: The string refers to argument number 3 but ignores the arguments 1 and 2.
./core/app/main/digikamapp.cpp:649: warning: Although being used in a format string position, the msgid is not a valid KDE format string. Reason: The string refers to argument number 3 but ignores the arguments 1 and 2.
./core/app/main/digikamapp.cpp:658: warning: Although being used in a format string position, the msgid is not a valid KDE format string. Reason: The string refers to argument number 3 but ignores the arguments 1 and 2.

Cheers,
  Albert

El dimecres, 12 de gener de 2022, a les 11:06:09 (CET), Sveinn í Felli va escriure:
> Hi,
> 
> There's one plural string in digikam.po (trunk) which yields an error; 
> I'm wondering what would be the cause:
> 
> #: 
> core/utilities/geolocation/geoiface/correlator/gpscorrelatorwidget.cpp:519
> #, kde-format
> msgid ""
> "One image have been correlated. Please check the offset and gap 
> settings if "
> "you think that more images should have been correlated."
> msgid_plural ""
> "%1 out of %2 images have been correlated. Please check the offset and gap "
> "settings if you think that more images should have been correlated."
> msgstr[0] ""
> "Ein mynd hefur verið pöruð við staðsetningarhnit. Gakktu úr skugga "
> "um að stillingar á tímabelti og frávikum séu réttar ef þú heldur að 
> fleiri "
> "myndir hefðu átt að vera paraðar."
> msgstr[1] ""
> "%1 af %2 myndum hafa verið paraðar við staðsetningarhnit. Gakktu úr 
> skugga "
> "um að stillingar á tímabelti og frávikum séu réttar ef þú heldur að 
> fleiri "
> "myndir hefðu átt að vera paraðar."
> 
> Both SVN and msgfmt give an error for this message:
> 
> $ msgfmt -vc digikam.po
> digikam.po:48960: a format specification for arguments 1 and 2 doesn't 
> exist in 'msgstr[0]', only one argument may be ignored
> msgfmt: found 1 fatal error
> 9059 translated messages, 2 untranslated messages.
> 
> I guess this must be violating some gettext-rule about that if there are 
> 2 variables in a plural form, there must be at least 1 in the singular 
> form. Right?
> 
> At least the French have translated this by adding '%1' instead of their 
> translation of 'One'=> "%1 image a été corrélée" which passes the tests.
> 
> Is there any other way of doing this?
> Perhaps this should be modified in the source string?
> 
> Best regards,
> Sveinn í Felli
>