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Re: Checking format specifiers
Wolfgang Bangerth <bangerth@ices.utexas.edu> writes:
>> > I am not familiar with the translation community, but if you are: one of
>> > the really necessary additions in their processes would be a small
>> > program that does what my small script tried to do in a thourough way
>> > (i.e., for example, taking into account positional parameters).
>>
>> Doesn't 'msgfmt --check-format' already do this?
>
> If it does, then it is not very successful: it doesn't give an error for any
> of the translations we have.
IIRC msgfmt --check-format only checks formats with the "#, c-format"
annotation, which we deliberately do not put on any of the
translations, because --check-format pukes on the extended format
specifiers used by the diagnostic printers.
zw