Re: gettextizing

[Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>]

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 05:28:51PM +0100, Jordi Mallach wrote:
> > > -  grub_printf ("\nPress any key to continue...");
> > > +  grub_printf (_("\nPress any key to continue..."));
> > 
> > I'm not sure if the spaces and newlines here would be a problem.  Jordi,
> > any comment?
> 
> Not a big issue in this case. However, it makes it difficult to reuse these
> strings, ie we can end up having 3 different strings:
>  - \nPress any key to continue...
>  - Press any key to continue...
>  - Press any key to continue...\n
> 
> which makes it easy to make different translations for the same string if the
> translator isn't careful.

Thanks Jordi.  This made me think, it also makes GCC allocate the string
3 times.  So one more reason to handle those!

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