From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Cc: teawater <teawater@gmail.com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
"gdb-patches@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [RFA] Add _() to query
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:57:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090224144826.GA5387@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090224133929.GA30561@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net>
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 02:39:29PM +0100, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:32:55 +0100, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 03:10:51PM +0800, teawater wrote:
> > > I remember you told me that you want to add _() to all query.
> > > I make a patch for it. Do you think it's OK?
> >
> > Before this goes in, could someone see if we could use xgettext
> > --keyword instead? That would let us translate messages in
> > one place instead of all over.
>
> The standard for localized messages is _(). Making the localization more
> magic makes the GDB project less viable for possible development newcomers.
I have trouble believing that.
I got this idea from GCC, which has used it for as long as I can
remember. If you pass --keyword=query, and use N_() inside the body
of query, xgettext will localize all arguments to query in the entire
program.
This is better for code size and for readability.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-24 14:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-24 10:52 teawater
2009-02-24 14:33 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-02-24 14:38 ` Jan Kratochvil
2009-02-24 14:57 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2009-02-24 15:32 ` Jan Kratochvil
2009-02-24 19:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-25 7:18 ` teawater
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