Roland Mainz writes:
> ksh93 (and bash) provide another way via $"mymessage", e.g. all string
> literals which are in double quotes with a '$' in front of the quotes
> are localiseable strings. If a matching catalog file exists and the
> locale is not "C" (or a l10n locale alias for "C" like "POSIX") then
> ksh93 tries to lookup these strings in the l10n catalog (catalogs can be
> generated via "shcomp -D scriptname" or "ksh93 -D scriptname").
OK.
> BTW: Another "nice" feature is that you can put the extended "getopts"
> strings into $"..." and therefore get localised manual pages for
> "myscript --man" for free (assuming a matching l10n catalog exists for
> "myscript" for the locale specified by ${LC_MESSAGES} and the script
> uses the "getopts" builtin provided by ksh93).
Someone will need to figure out how to convert the .sh.po rule in
$SRC/Makefile.master to something that can deal with these before they
can be used in ON. It doesn't look to me like it could.
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