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

[Mike Frysinger]

On Tuesday 19 August 2008, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> 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.

i dont see how that relates to message prefixes.  internal errors will all 
have the same translated prefix.  how you translate the rest of the message 
is unchanged.

> 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.

having all the messages read the same now doesnt really matter.  it's a very 
trivial source for bitrot.
-mike

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