Re: Improving the translation of questions with choices (Was: a couple of aptitude queries :))

[Eugeniy Meshcheryakov <eugen@univ.kiev.ua>]

25.04.05 о 14:04 +0200 Jacob Sparre Andersen написав(-ла):
> Wouldn't it be better, if the strings _showing_ the choices
> were excluded from the .pot msgids?  That way there wouldn't
> be so much doubt - and less risk of errors - when
> translating.
> 
> For example following this pattern:
> 
>    # Yes (default, single key)
>    msgid "Y"
>    msgstr ""
> 
>    # No (single key)
>    msgid "n"
>    msgstr ""
> 
>    # Help (single key)
>    msgid "?"
>    msgstr ""
> 
>    msgid "Continue? [%options]"
>    msgstr
> 
> Then the program could compose the contant of "%options"
> based on what is actually the options, and which keys
> actually are accepted for these options.
> 
See also nl_langinfo(3). Especially about YESEXPR and NOEXPR.

-- 
Eugeniy Meshcheryakov

Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University
Information and Computing Centre
http://icc.univ.kiev.ua

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