Recently many messages in gimp have been changed to append " %s", like in this example: #: app/tools/transform_options.c:223 #, c-format msgid "Keep Height %s" The %s seems to be filled in with the return value of a call to gimp_get_mod_name_control (). What's the purpose of these changes to the translatable messages? Are the ordering of the %s, or the amount of whitespace used, supposed to change with the translations? If they aren't, perhaps moving these %s outside the gettext calls should be considered. Christian