Re: GNU poke 1.0 released

[Benno Schulenberg]

Op 02-03-2021 om 23:33 schreef Jose E. Marchesi:
> Not really, because of our use of terminal hyperlinks.  I just pushed a
> patch that changes the code to this:
> 
>           pk_puts (_("For help, type"));
>           pk_puts (" \"");
>           pk_term_hyperlink (help_hyperlink, NULL);
>           pk_puts (".help");
>           pk_term_end_hyperlink ();
>           pk_puts ("\".\n");
>           free (help_hyperlink);
> 
> i.e. now the double quotes are not gettextized.  I am aware splitting
> sentences like this is complicated for internationalization, but I can't
> see how to solve this without splitting.  Any idea?

Maybe change the first statement to:

           pk_puts (_("For help, type: "));

and drop the \" quotes?  It avoids an awkwardly truncated sentence, and
avoids showing quote characters that are improper in some locales.

Benno