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