[Cluster-devel] [PATCH 3/3] mkfs i18n:

Steven Whitehouse swhiteho at redhat.com
Thu Sep 22 09:47:36 UTC 2011


Hi,

On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 21:33 -0300, Carlos Maiolino wrote:
> Hi Steve, I was looking through some codes from GNU project, and here are some examples I found:
> 
> 
> from fdisk tool (this is the latest version, but I think fdisk is not often updated):
> 
> /* Prompt the user to answer a yes or no question. */
> int
> command_line_prompt_boolean_question (const char* prompt) {
>         char        *user_ans;
>         StrList *possibilities = str_list_create (_("yes"), _("no"), NULL);
>         user_ans = fdisk_command_line_get_word (_(prompt), _("no"), possibilities, 0);
> 
>         if (strcmp (user_ans, _("yes")) == 0)
>                 return 1;
> 
>         /* user answered no */
>         return 0;
> }
> 
> 
> I found another idea in the gnu parted.
> 
> The GNU parted adds the rpmatch function as a library
> into the parted source code, and adds a regex expression
> to be translated into the .pot file:
> 
> <snip>
>  #: lib/rpmatch.c:147
>  msgid "^[yY]"
>  msgstr ""
> 
>  #: lib/rpmatch.c:160
>  msgid "^[nN]"
>  msgstr ""
> 
> </snip>
> 
> Looking through both of the above codes, looks like there 
> is no specific rule about how to translate "y/n" strings.
> In both cases these are translated via .pot file.
> 
> One suggestion, would be to split the string
> 
> "Are you sure? [y/n]"
> 
> in three different strings like:
> 
> "Are you sure?"
> "yes"
> "no"
> 
> This way would be more 'understandable' for translators
> than the current one.
> Or, we can add to the .pot file a comment explaining 
> what to do with this portion of translation.
> 
> 
I prefer the longer string to splitting it, if we cannot get the
translation automatically from glibc, which does appear to be the case.
Also, I think adding a comment to the .pot to explain how to translate
the question is a good idea. We should always be doing that where
anything tricky is encountered,

Steve.

> 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino at redhat.com>
> > > > ---
> > > >  gfs2/mkfs/main_mkfs.c |   30 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------
> > > >  1 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> > > > 
> > > > diff --git a/gfs2/mkfs/main_mkfs.c b/gfs2/mkfs/main_mkfs.c
> > > > index 4751f19..d68cf98 100644
> > > > --- a/gfs2/mkfs/main_mkfs.c
> > > > +++ b/gfs2/mkfs/main_mkfs.c
> > > > @@ -456,8 +456,11 @@ fail:
> > > >  
> > > >  static void are_you_sure(struct gfs2_sbd *sdp)
> > > >  {
> > > > -	char input[32];
> > > > +	char *line = NULL;
> > > > +	size_t len = 0;
> > > >  	int fd;
> > > > +	int ret = -1;
> > > > +	int res = 0;
> > > >  
> > > >  	fd = open(sdp->device_name, O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC);
> > > >  	if (fd < 0)
> > > > @@ -465,14 +468,25 @@ static void are_you_sure(struct gfs2_sbd *sdp)
> > > >  	printf( _("This will destroy any data on %s.\n"), sdp->device_name);
> > > >  	check_dev_content(sdp->device_name);
> > > >  	close(fd);
> > > > -	printf( _("\nAre you sure you want to proceed? [y/n] "));
> > > > -	if(!fgets(input, 32, stdin))
> > > > -		die( _("unable to read from stdin\n"));
> > > > +	
> > > > +	do{
> > > > +		printf( _("\nAre you sure you want to proceed? [y/n]"));
> > > This means that the translator needs to know that rpmatch is being used
> > > and to also know how to translate this accordingly. Why not use
> > > nl_langinfo() to put the response strings into this message?
> > > 
> > I was looking how nl_langinfo() works, and all it does to help with yes/no 
> > questions is to return a regex expression (like [^[SsyY].*) to be used to match 
> > the user's answer, it does not return a string or char value like yes/no (en_US) or 
> > sim/nao(pt_BR) we can use to replace the y/n in the question string.
> > 
> > The rpmatch() function takes advantage of nl_langinfo() internaly to match the
> > customer's answer according to which l10n the system is set.
> > 
> > This way, even using nl_langinfo(), the translator person will still need to translate
> > the y/n to s/n, since is not possible to use nl_langinfo to replace these values.
> > 
> > What we could do, is to create an auxiliar function to check the return of nl_langinfo(),
> > and, according with this value, write an specific string (s/n, y/n, etc). But, imho, this
> > could lead to an error prone condition during string creation.
> > 
> > What u think?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > -- 
> > --Carlos
> > 
> 





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