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1. RavanH
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   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   When creating a Dutch translation for the Twenty Ten theme based on the included POT file, I ran into an error when trying to save the translation:
   

   .../nl_NL.po:127: missing msgstr[] section
   msgfmt: found 1 fatal error

   After that, Poedit closed but the saved .po and mo files are corrupted and my translation seemed lost. GRRRRRR :(

   Searching Poedit bugreports and other resources I found how I could 'fix' the problem in the .po file:
   There was a line in the header missing:
   "Plural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1);\n"
   And the problematic translation that was:
   

   #: comments.php:35
   #, php-format
   msgid "One Response to %2$s"
   msgid_plural "%1$s Responses to %2$s"

   I completed with:
   

   #: comments.php:35
   #, php-format
   msgid "One Response to %2$s"
   msgid_plural "%1$s Responses to %2$s"
   msgstr[0] ""
   msgstr[1] ""

   After that, Poedit could open the .po file and let me finish the translation and create a working .mo translation file from it... Pfffff...

   I have no idea if the whole thing was caused by me doing something wrong when I created the new translation from the .pot file or because there is something wrong with the pot file it self... Can anyone tell me what went wrong ?

   Thanks :)

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