Re: RFP: use gnu gettext

From: Paul Rohr (paul@abisource.com)
Date: Mon Apr 29 2002 - 17:36:49 EDT

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    At 08:18 PM 4/29/02 +0200, Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote:
    >Dom Lachowicz <doml@appligent.com> wrote in
    >news:1020090838.1824.29.camel@a227.appligent.com:
    >
    >> *) Stops re-duplication of strings
    >
    >Some strings probably *need* to be duplicated. I'm thinking of
    >strings which are identical in English, but not in the target
    >language. I have also localized Mozilla, and there I found several
    >such strings, e.g. 'Forward' (which could mean the opposite of
    >'back' or 'to send on'). Such strings are sure to crop up in
    >AbiWord too, sooner or later.

    Yep. This is a known problem with gettext's use of strings (instead of IDs)
    as lookup keys:

      http://www.gnu.org/manual/glibc-2.2.3/html_node/libc_127.html#SEC136

    The workarounds proposed there don't seem all that helpful. I assume that
    Dom has a strategy for this, though.

    Paul



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