Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On Sun, 30 Dec 2007, Philippe Grosjean wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> As I understand it, gettext() is designed to retrieve messages from >> 'R-pkg' domains. As such, it cannot retrieve some of the messages in the >> 'pkg' domains (those supposed to be accessed by C code only, I know), >> namely, all messages ending with space(s) or \n. This is clearly >> indicated in ?gettext (at least for trailing spaces): >> >> "For 'gettext', leading and trailing whitespace is ignored when looking >> for the translation." > > (\n _is_ whitespace).
Yes, soory. >> So, my questions: >> 1) Do I really need to write C code to retrieve all messages from 'pkg' >> domain? > > Yes. > >> 2) Wouldn't it be useful to add an argument to gettext() (like trim = >> TRUE), or alternatively, to propose a Gettext() function in utils >> packages that allows retrieving those messages with trailing space(s) or >> \n in 'pkg' domain from R code? > > Apparently only useful to you: it's certainly not useful for the > internationalization of R itself, and I don't see why you can't organize > the package so that the C-level messages don't have leading/trailing > whitespace *if* you want to mix up domains. Messages are is someone else's package. So, I have no control on them! ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
