--- Christian Biesinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 04:35:51AM +0100, Andrew > Dunbar wrote: > > --- Karl Ove Hufthammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Dom Lachowicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > > > Some strings probably *need* to be duplicated. > I'm > > > thinking of > > > strings which are identical in English, but not > in > > > the target > > > language. [...] > > I was always suspicious that gettext did this. Is > > there a way around it? > > Well... you can use "Forward1" or whatever as the > english string and > provide an english .po file as well... but that's a > bit of a hack.
This is hideous. I can't support gettext in AbiWord if this is the best solution. > > Also we need to fix the > > problem where multiple %s need to be in a > different > > order between English and the localized language. > > Will gettext help with this? > > Sure. (Though this might actually be a feature of > printf). > Just use "foo %2$s bar %1$s" as the msgstr. I seem to recall a discussion here a while ago that this doesn't work now. Maybe it's a feature of gettext that is a plus over what we have now - anybody remember better what the current situation is? Andrew Dunbar. > -- > "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a > little temporary > safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." > -- > Benjamin Franklin > > ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature ===== http://linguaphile.sourceforge.net http://www.abisource.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com
