Internationalization of mc.hlp
- From: Pavel Roskin <proski gnu org>
- To: Szabolcs Ban <shooby gnome hu>
- Cc: <mc-devel gnome org>
- Subject: Internationalization of mc.hlp
- Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 17:32:56 -0400 (EDT)
Hello, Szabolcs!
I have found that you applied a patch to GNU Midnight Commander that made
string "mc.hlp" translatable. I don't know what exactly you were trying to
do, but I believe you have chosen a wrong way.
Gettext supports human readable strings, not filenames. You probably
assumed that every translator would do the same what you did in hu.po:
msgid "mc.hlp"
msgstr "mc.hlp.hu"
But let's see other translations.
German: "mc.hlf"
Latvian: "palīdzība"
Slovenian: "mc.pomoč"
Translators don't know about your hack. If you set LANG=de_DE and press F1
in the viewer, help won't appear - there is no such file as mc.hlf. And
please note one important detail - there is no fallback to the english
"mc.hlp".
I'm going to undo your changes. They cause too much trouble. Correct patch
is welcome, but incorrect patches are not.
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
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