Re: gettext-0.10.37 discrepancies with Japanese, Nynorsk, Russian, etc.

[Bruno Haible]

Paul Eggert writes:
> Surely all that's needed to fix the problem is for the gettext maintainer
> to sync with <http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/po/maint/gettext/>.

That has happened with gettext-0.10.38.

> There are other problems in other languages that would also be fixed
> by syncing.  For example, gettext-0.10.37 is missing translations for
> the following locales, even though translations are available at
> umontreal:
> 
>   cs gl id it ru zh

Fixed in gettext-0.10.38.

> Conversely, where umontreal has an "address@hidden" locale, gettext
> 0.10.37 has an "nn" locale.  Here it seems to me that gettext is
> correct and umontreal (dated 1996-03-21 in this case) is obsolescent,
> as "nn" is now the official ISO 639 language code for Nynorsk
> Norwegian (as of 2000-02-18).  I'll CC: this message to address@hidden to
> let them know about the discrepancy.

You are right about the points; thanks for making them aware.

> gettext also has "address@hidden" and an "address@hidden" locales, but I 
> assume
> it's OK for the maintainer to maintain extra translations by himself.
> (I do that myself for en_GB in diffutils.)  However, I'll CC: this to
> address@hidden just in case

Thanks; I'd like to know what they think about these two ways to put
quotation marks.

Bruno