hallo, In case you haven't fixed this ---- the culprit looks like the semicolon at the end of the Plural line... Should be something like this: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1\n" "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n" "Plural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1)\n" "X-Poedit-Language: Swahili\n" We'll need a heads up on that piece of software, if possible. Rgds Olive trees are important. They represent everything that roots us, anchors us, identifies us and locates us in this world - whether it be belonging to a family, a community, a tribe, a nation, a religion or, most of all, a place called home. - Thomas Friedman - "The Lexus And The Olive Tree" ________________________________ From: Kiti Chigiri <kiti.chigiri@gmail.com> To: skunkworks@my.co.ke Sent: Tue, May 18, 2010 8:19:34 AM Subject: [Skunkworks] il8n and l10n of an app to swahili Hi all, I am working on a multilingual app and one of the languages is Swahili. Everything is working fine except that some specific words are not being translated despite the msgstr value being set correctly When i run the command msgfmt -v -c /path/to/file/default.po -o /dev/null I get the following output default.po:2: invalid plural expression I have checked the header files and changed the settings for plural translations as suggested by the article at http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/l10n/pluralforms#s but still the darn string doesnt get translated as is supposed So my question is, what is/are the correct plural form(s) setting for the swahili language that you set in the headers of your .po files? Anyone with an idea on how to, or has experienced a similar problem? see the attached file for a sample of what i am working with regards Kiti Chigiri