Re: Translation problems and bad strings

[Rich Burridge <Rich Burridge Sun COM>]

Hi Telsa,

> (Cc'ing Rich Burridge, who is listed in MAINTAINERS: Rich, these
> are some of a long list of error messages which are marked for 
> translation in gcalctool.(
> 
> On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 01:30:34PM +0100 or thereabouts, Åsmund Skjæveland 
wrote:
> > [gcalctool]
> > > msgid ""
> > > "*** B = %d ILLEGAL IN CALL TO MPCHK.\n"
> > > "PERHAPS NOT SET BEFORE CALL TO AN MP ROUTINE ***\n"
> > > msgid ""
> > > "*** ERROR OCCURRED IN MPROOT, NEWTON ITERATION NOT CONVERGING PROPERLY 
***\n"
> > > msgid "*** ABS(X) NOT LESS THAN 1 IN CALL TO MPEXP1 ***\n"
> > 
> > Should these strings be marked translatable at all?
> 
> Well, we wondered that :) Are they for the user, the developer, or
> what? If they are user messages, they are for users who understand
> mathematics!
> 
> > Åsmund Skjæveland <aasmunds@fys.uio.no>

Ole Laursen convinced me that there was no need to translate those strings.
Here's the entry from the gcalctool ChangeLog related to this.

2003-09-16  Rich Burridge <rich.burridge@sun.com>

    * Fixed bug 120605 (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120605)
      Gcalctool contains lots of messages that are (potentially) only
      displayed if the user starts the application with either the -D or
      the -E command line options. As these are debugging messages, they
      need not be translated, so the _(...) macros around them have been
      removed.