The problems with free CVS committing

[Alan Cox]

On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 07:29:24PM +0100, Nikos Charonitakis wrote:
> can you give an example of such an error
> string?
> what's the "scpecial" thing  about it?

Some of the strings are used solely for internal stuff (gtk has a much 
clearer example - a string which indicates left->right or right->left
rendering). Several applications have strings to translate of the form

	"%-8s blah"

and while msgfmt will accept "blah %8s" as valid and it is valid .po it
may break assumptions in the app only documented in comments in the po
file. 

These cases are rare fortunately