Carles Pina i Estany wrote: > So my concerns: > a) It change a common practise (even when it's not the best one). > Translators expects the way that it has been done until now, and I would > like that somebody that it's not Grub (small i18n project) starts the > change > > Jordi and Collin said that they are fed up with this "common practice" > b) Makes the alignment more difficult > Why not just do like
" -h, --help %s\n"
" -V, --version %s\n"
" -v, --verbose %s\n", _("display this message and exit"), _
("print version information and exit"), _("print verbose messages")
We won't translate --help anyway.
> c) Makes the code a bit less clear
>
Not if you use printf/sprintf templates
> Comment: sadly our grub.po already has someo of these long messages.
> Would you change it and "force" the translators to change? Or have the
> Grub domain with some long strings as short strings?
>
Another possibility is to change them to short strings when we'll change
this string next time.
> Maybe Colin has things to say too.
>
> If next messages goes to the same direction (splitting) I'll propose a
> way to split some non-gettexted message in Grub and then apply the same
> to the other ones.
>
> (Mmm... a nice start would be to split the very-repeated:
> " -h, --help display this message and exit\n"
> " -V, --version print version information and exit\n"
> " -v, --verbose print verbose messages\n"
> "\n"
> "Report bugs to <%s>.\n"
>
> In different sentences for all messsages.
> )
>
> Cheers,
>
>
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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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