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kevinveenbirkenbachandClaude Opus 5 bd39b0dc8f fix(i18n): stop a percent sign in prose from making a catalog uncompilable
xgettext counts a space as a format flag, so the prose `95% confidence` parses
as the directive `% c` and the entry is marked python-format. Every translation
moves the word behind the percent sign, msgfmt then reads `% V` and refuses the
catalog. Quoted Jinja blocks and percent-encoded URLs fall into the same trap.
A run over the documentation catalogs left 312 such entries in 19 files, none
of which could be compiled to .mo.

Removing the flag when writing does nothing: babel derives it from the msgid on
every load, so the value in the file is decoration. gettext's own switch for
this is no-python-format, which babel does not touch, and the writer now sets
it on entries the derivation flags but that carry no real placeholder. The
derived flag has to go at the same time, because gettext reads the flag line in
order and `no-python-format, python-format` cancels itself out.

What counts as a real placeholder was already spelled out in PROTECTED, so it
moves into PRINTF and is used from both places rather than written twice.

The repository lint gains the check that would have caught this. It compares
the msgid against itself first and reports only when the translation alone
fails, so a source string that mixes positional and named placeholders, which
gettext accepts, does not raise a finding.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-24 21:24:52 +02:00
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