Re: [bug-mailutils] NLS status

[Jordi Mallach]

On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 09:20:49PM +0200, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> Well, it's not exactly a problem. Gettext analyzes strings in the
> same way gcc does, i.e. upon encountering an escaped symbol, it
> translates it into a corresponding ASCII character. It can't be
> blamed for it. The ^K in .pot file is actually a single character
> (ASCII 013). So, we have two possible solutions:
> 
> 1) Leave things as they are and urge translators to retain ^K in their
> translation *as a single character*.

Not too cool. I, for one, didn't know how to insert this character on
Emacs po-mode, or vim. I finally did it putting it on vim's text buffer
and pasting it again.

> 2) Split the strings containing \v in the following manner:
> 
> N_("GNU dotlock -- lock mail spool files")
>   "\v"
> N_("Returns 0 on success, 3 if the locking the file fails because"
>    " it's already locked, and 1 if some other kind of error
>    occurred.");
> 
> Thus, the compiler will glue the three strings together, yet 
> gettext will see two separate strings there.
> 
> Which one would you prefer? I'd vote for the latter.

Same here. Makes translator's life easier.

Jordi
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