Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.2dev.2

[dickey]

> > 1) Please rename makefile.in.in and a couple of others with two dots 
>  
> If this is in reference to /intl and /po, PLEASE don't include ANY of 
> it. 

for this pass, I included it - I'd rather make it an add-on package, but
that'll take more work.
  
> > 2) french "po" file say something like 
>  
> I couldn't get fr.po to even compile.  I think it's broken. 

I spent the past couple of mornings finding that the Solaris version of
xgettext doesn't handle the files Lynx has: too many files, and the
Solaris versions don't parse the continued lines.  And the workarounds
don't work.  So I don't see how to build it without the GNU gettext stuff.
(And building _that_, I found one syntax error ;-).
  
> > msgid "NeXT character set " msgstr "Jeu de car. NeXT " which obviously 
> > wrong for several reasons:  1. trailing spaces not allowed, 
>  
> One nice "feature" of xgettext is that it will find errors in the code. 
>  
> > 2. should be inserted only in option menu but not in 
> > LYCharSets.c/UCDomap.c/ LYRCFile.c to avoid compatibility problems 
> > with .lynxrc/lynx.cfg 
>  
> If this is the case, developers may have to come up with different 
> wording for strings to make them unique. 

yes - that's a weakness of xgettext.
  
> __Henry 


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