Re: [Nano-devel] [patch] making some messages more alarming

[Benno Schulenberg]

Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 August 2008, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> > -        statusbar(_("Couldnt match current undo line"));
> > +        statusbar(_("*Internal error*: cannot match current
> > undo line"));
>
> maybe better to introduce an internal error macro ?  that way
> translators only need to update "*internal error*" once rather
> than every message, and so the output format stays consistent.

In some human languages things may need to be worded differently 
depending on whether it is an alarmist message, a neutral note, a 
pointing out of user error, ...  Therefore it's better to 
gettextize complete messages and not parts of them.

Repetitive components are not a problem for translators.  And the 
messages to which "*Internal error*" is added are all new, so not 
many translators have translated them yet.  Not much is lost when 
changing them now.

Benno