[Libvir] many more translatable strings need to be marked

Daniel Veillard veillard at redhat.com
Fri Feb 29 17:08:55 UTC 2008


On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 04:54:38PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com> wrote:
> >   But maybe we should consider those as internal errors (which I think they are)
> > and report them as such, the string itself is probably as well left out of
> > gettext entierely (but the error massage saying it was an internal error,
> > that one need localization).
> 
> I agree that it'd be nice to improve those diagnostics.
> 
> How about if I mark the existing ones for now, with the proposed added
> comments?  The comments can then serve as a reminder to rewrite them later.
> 
>     /* FIXME: rewrite this diagnostic */
>     /* TRANSLATORS: no need to translate */

 Hum, how that comment for the transaltors actually shows up in their
tools ? Honnestly I would rather avoid aving the string sent to them if we 
know they can't do anything.

Daniel

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