Re: keys in Aptitude

[Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>]

> >This probably affects the other strings where you had [Y/n].....I you put, 
> >say
> >"O" then "N" here, then you must "translate" the strings as "blah blah? 
> >[O/n]"
> > 
> >
> They really should use LC_MESSAGES yesstr/nostr/yesexpr/noexpr,
> IMHO...

Yep, sure. Maybe someone could come up with a patch, unless Daniel is
already aware of the way to properly use this in his source code.

> From "man xgettext":
> 
>       -c, --add-comments[=TAG]
>              place comment block with TAG (or those preceding keyword 
> lines) in output file
> 
> I tried this (test.cc):
> 
>  $ xgettext --output=- --add-comments=GETTEXT: --c++ - << __EOF__
>  // GETTEXT: first comment
>  cout << gettext("hello") << eol;
>  // GETTEXT: second comment
>  cout << gettext("hello again") << eol;
>  __EOF__
> 
> And obtained this:
> 
>  #. GETTEXT: first comment
>  #: entrée standard:2
>  msgid "hello"
>  msgstr ""
> 
>  #. GETTEXT: second comment
>  #: entrée standard:4
>  msgid "hello again"
>  msgstr ""


Great. Daniel, I think it's worth commenting some of the aptitude
strings that way. Do you mind if I try to do so ?