Re: gettext - was: Re: ASCII and Unicode Quotation Marks

[kaih@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Kai Henningsen)]

drepper@xxxxxxxxxx (Ulrich Drepper)  wrote on 30.01.00 in <m3wvors6pl.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> Andries.Brouwer@xxxxxx writes:
>
> >     In cases such as these, _if_ you're using an English .po, you can
> >     easily add a tag to the in-program message to disambiguate. It should
> >     not be a problem to word it in a way that it still works as fallback.
> >
> >     MfG Kai
> >
> > Oh, of course one can kludge around gettext deficiencies,
> > it is not a serious problem, but it is a tiny annoyance.
> >
> > For small homogeneous projects gettext() is easier; for large
> > or inhomogeneous projects the message catalog approach is more powerful
> > and more convenient.
>
> Apparently you both have not only spend no time thinking about
> solutions, you have also not tried to read up what others think.  Read

Gratuituous insults are always so helpful. Especially when they're flat  
out wrong.

> the section about message handling in the glibc 2.2 manual (available
> from the CVS archive, e.g., through the web interface on
> sourceware.cygnus.com).

Is it significantly different from 2.1.2? Because that one says exactly  
what Andries said.


MfG Kai
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