[Bug binutils/23431] New: Messages composed from pieces can't be properly translated

[goeran at uddeborg dot se]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23431

            Bug ID: 23431
           Summary: Messages composed from pieces can't be properly
                    translated
           Product: binutils
           Version: 2.31
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: binutils
          Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org
          Reporter: goeran at uddeborg dot se
  Target Milestone: ---

In dwarf.c, in the function display_formatted_table, messages are composed from
parts.  The argument "what", "File name" or "Directory" is placed in like

   The %s Table is empty

and

   Corrupt %s entries list

Messages like these are hard or impossible to translate correctly.  In Swedish,
for example, attributive nouns should be written as one word with the main
noun. It can passably be translated provided the translator is aware of the
use.  (Capitalisation will still get wrong in some of the cases.)  In languages
further removed from English, I suspect it can't be done correctly at all.

These messages will have to be separated into complete messages for each case,
file name or directory, to be properly translated.

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