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Re: expr say "non integer argument"


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: expr say "non integer argument"
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:16:21 -0700
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According to Voelker, Bernhard on 2/18/2010 8:31 AM:
>> -            error (EXPR_INVALID, 0, _("non-numeric argument"));
>> +            error (EXPR_INVALID, 0, _("non-integer argument"));
> 
> Maybe a dumb question:
> Why's the error message hardcoded?

It isn't.

> Isn't there localization for this error message?

Yep - _("...") is the localization.  It is a macro that calls gettext, and
gettext does all the work of translating it according to your locale
environment variables.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden

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