Re: gettext util

[Carles Pina i Estany]

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.

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