Re: New document required

[Karl Eichwalder <ke suse de>]

Telsa Gwynne <hobbit@aloss.ukuu.org.uk> writes:

> Blush. Okay, I see what that means now, but I read it and managed
> not to realise what it meant. Thanks :)  

What about translating gettext.pot?  This way an English proofreading
would happen automatically ;)

> I'm trying to find it now. What was happening was that initially
> we were having trouble inserting accents onto letters and some
> files contained things like [i"] to mean "turn this into ï" 
> (that should be an i with two dots if it didn't come out right).

The ï looks good.  I guess the trouble was mainly caused by the erratic
double quote.

> And I or Dafydd would add the accents in before committing.
>
> And msgfmt whinged about it until it was changed. Of course I
> don't remember the error message, and now I can't reproduce it. 
> Something along the lines of unrecognised command. I am trying
> to get it to happen again, but it won't now!

Okay, as long as things work there is no need to dig out the old
annoyances.  Maybe, confusing format specifiers were also mixed in
(%s)...

> Thanks. It's not that it's not working or anything. The problem
> is knowing C syntax well enough to know how to describe "here is
> the list of numbers which have different plurals". It is not always
> as simple as "1" and "more than 1". I know there are loads of
> hackers on this list, but it's not guaranteed that every team
> will have a handy hacker :)

Yes, but that's exactly the kind of human beings Bruno is looking for.
Just describe the plural usage and Bruno will translate it into C "on
the fly"; then he will add it to the docs and the check program.
Especially the check is very helpful.

> Thanks a lot for the comments. I shall go and fix things now :) 

Good :)

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