Pádraig Brady <[email protected]> writes: > On 22/01/2026 15:44, [email protected] wrote: >> Op 22-01-2026 om 14:50 schreef Pádraig Brady: >> >>> doc: all: use option highlighting and more standard alignment >> Arggh!!! What happened?! Diffing the POT file with the previous version >> gives me four thousand eight hundred lines!! >> Looking at that commit (2dad24adc0), the first change -- in basename.c -- >> does not change any wording but just reformats the lines in two ways: >> to take up more space (which one does not want in a --help text) and >> to slice up the text into separate strings (one per option). And from >> a quick scan, all changes are like this. The horror! The horror! This >> invalidates _all_ existing translations. What incredible disrespect for >> the translators. > Well I did CC you on the original proposal 1 month ago. > For white space only changes, might tooling help with that?
FWIW, ISTM that the splitting change could be reverted (even though I consider it a generally better approach for those to be split up logically), if oputs is slightly adjusted to iterate options in a string that contains multiple options. ... but, I'd be surprised if a script couldn't process .po files to perform the same split as in the .pot -- Arsen Arsenović
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