From: Carles Pina i Estany <carles@pina.cat>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Cc: jordi@gnu.org
Subject: Re: gettext util
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 00:59:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100327005917.GA14712@pina.cat> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100327005416.GA14529@pina.cat>
Hi,
On Mar/27/2010, Carles Pina i Estany wrote:
> > According to gettext manual usage messages must be internationalised on
> > per-option basis to allow reuse of e.g. --help desciption and to avoid
> > the whole big message to be marked as fuzzy if only one option changes.
>
> I'm surprised, specially because if I get the gettext project as a
> reference:
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gettext.git/tree/gettext-runtime/src/gettext.c?id=c81a5234a673f6fbc0f8b7ea8f18ef73021b0a2e#n252
>
> They are not doing. Other projects that I can remember where my LUG has
> done things (e.g. tar) is not done in this way.
not doing it has another problem: alignment.
Certainly, not doing it has the problem that you have spotted (changing
one option will mark everything has fuzzy).
Just I wanted to point to it.
--
Carles Pina i Estany
http://pinux.info
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-27 1:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-19 23:56 gettext util Carles Pina i Estany
2010-03-26 16:00 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-03-27 0:54 ` Carles Pina i Estany
2010-03-27 0:59 ` Carles Pina i Estany [this message]
2010-03-27 11:29 ` Jordi Mallach
2010-03-27 21:42 ` Carles Pina i Estany
2010-03-27 22:20 ` Colin Watson
2010-03-27 22:36 ` Carles Pina i Estany
2010-03-27 23:16 ` Colin Watson
2010-03-28 12:48 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-03-28 22:05 ` Carles Pina i Estany
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