Invalid format specifiers for singular and plural forms

[Jarek Zgoda]

I seem to be unable to compile translation catalog for Polish language, I cann't find any reasonable cause. The problem is signaled by msgfmt as wrong format specifier. The problematic section is:

#: contrib/admin/options.py:745
#, python-format
msgid "%(count)s %(singular)s was changed successfully."
msgid_plural "%(count)s %(plural)s were changed successfully."
msgstr[0] "%(count)s %(singular)s został zmieniony."
msgstr[1] "%(count)s %(plural)s zostały zmienione."
msgstr[2] "%(count)s %(plural)s zostało zmienionych."

The problematic line is msgstr[0]. My msgfmt seems to not accept %(singular)s as valid format specifier:

jarek:~/install/django/django$ LANG=C django-admin.py compilemessages -l pl
processing file django.po in /Users/jarek/install/django/django/conf/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES
/Users/jarek/install/django/django/conf/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/django.po:378: a format specification for argument 'singular', as in 'msgstr[0]', doesn't exist in 'msgid'
msgfmt: found 1 fatal error

If I change the specifier to %(plural)s the compilation succeeds, but in a result plural form is used instead of singular.

[Malcolm Tredinnick]

Fixed in r10081.

[Malcolm Tredinnick]

This looks like a bug / un-feature in xgettext. Very annoying. :-(