Re: Untranslatable message

[Joel E. Denny]

On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Göran Uddeborg wrote:

> > In your opinion, are the resulting translations broken enough to warrant a 
> > fix before the bison 2.4.2 release?
> 
> Certainly not as far as Swedish is concerned.  In this case the
> languages are very close.  Nobody would misunderstand.
> 
> Since bison is a pretty technical tool, I would assume most people
> using it would know some English anyway.  The translations for this
> type of program is more a convenience than a necessity.  Obviously I
> don't really know much about, say, the typical Chinese situation.  But
> my personal assessment is that a release is ok even if this detail is
> a bit broken.

Thanks again.

I pushed the following to branch-2.5 and master.  It doesn't seem 
worthwhile to bother the translators about this for 2.4.3, which is nearly 
ready to be released.

>From e0fda26c8dda7f03443f69fb8c20b7cdeb1b37fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joel E. Denny <address@hidden>
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 17:05:18 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] i18n: fix untranslatable string.

Reported by Goran Uddeborg at
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bison/2010-03/msg00000.html>.
* src/muscle-tab.c (muscle_percent_define_insert): Here.
---
 ChangeLog        |    7 +++++++
 src/muscle-tab.c |    4 ++--
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 5c8a9c5..092f36f 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2010-04-25  Joel E. Denny  <address@hidden>
+
+       i18n: fix untranslatable string.
+       Reported by Goran Uddeborg at
+       <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bison/2010-03/msg00000.html>.
+       * src/muscle-tab.c (muscle_percent_define_insert): Here.
+
 2010-04-13  Akim Demaille  <address@hidden>
 
        tests: calc: minor refactoring.
diff --git a/src/muscle-tab.c b/src/muscle-tab.c
index 08383a6..5ab5f9b 100644
--- a/src/muscle-tab.c
+++ b/src/muscle-tab.c
@@ -425,8 +425,8 @@ muscle_percent_define_insert (char const *variable, 
location variable_loc,
           free (variable_tr);
           return;
         }
-      complain_at (variable_loc, _("%s `%s' redefined"),
-                   "%define variable", variable);
+      complain_at (variable_loc, _("%%define variable `%s' redefined"),
+                   variable);
       complain_at (muscle_percent_define_get_loc (variable),
                    _("previous definition"));
     }
-- 
1.5.4.3