From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2088 invoked by alias); 6 Dec 2004 04:59:27 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 2058 invoked from network); 6 Dec 2004 04:59:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO legolas.inter.net.il) (192.114.186.24) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 6 Dec 2004 04:59:19 -0000 Received: from zaretski ([80.230.156.125]) by legolas.inter.net.il (MOS 3.5.5-GR) with ESMTP id DGP81528 (AUTH halo1); Mon, 6 Dec 2004 06:57:47 +0200 (IST) Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 04:59:00 -0000 From: "Eli Zaretskii" To: Daniel Jacobowitz Message-ID: <01c4db50$Blat.v2.2.2$4482b5a0@zahav.net.il> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 CC: ibr@ata.cs.hun.edu.tr, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com In-reply-to: <20041205214115.GA24180@nevyn.them.org> (message from Daniel Jacobowitz on Sun, 5 Dec 2004 16:41:15 -0500) Subject: Re: i18n, part 2 Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <20041204195702.GA25306@ata.cs.hun.edu.tr> <20041204200605.GA15732@nevyn.them.org> <20041204215404.GA2413@ata.cs.hun.edu.tr> <01c4db12$Blat.v2.2.2$4dfdf600@zahav.net.il> <20041205214115.GA24180@nevyn.them.org> X-SW-Source: 2004-12/txt/msg00155.txt.bz2 > Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 16:41:15 -0500 > From: Daniel Jacobowitz > Cc: Baurjan Ismagulov , > gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com > > Yuck! What if someone wants to add another status? I understand that > there is a translation problem here, but I find it really hard to > accept that enumerating exponential combinations is really the > solution. I suspect either: > - the message needs to be redesigned in some more friendly way > - we need a more friendly way to output a list of translated statuses > - or else we need to leave the status message untranslated pending > some thought on the above. I have a difficulty judging the alternatives (except the last one), without any concrete suggestions. If you have more specific suggestions, please tell. While in principle, having all the permutations is tough, this specific case has a small number of them, so failing an attempt to find a better alternative, I don't see any terribly big problem with what I suggested.