Re: [PATCH] Don't give spurious warnings when using thread specific breakpoints

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 10:14:19 -0400
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> 
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 01:01:23PM +0100, Andrew STUBBS wrote:
> > How about the attached patch which includes the one without the other? 
> > I've also taken the opportunity to add _() macros to a few strings.
> 
> Except that they're not useful that way :-(  This should always be a
> red flag:
> 
> > -			       : ((others == 1) ? " and" : ""));
> > +			       : ((others == 1) ? _(" and") : ""));
> 
> There's no useful translation for " and".

Right.

Andrew, I'm sorry to discourage you, but i18n cannot be done this way,
as translators will be unable to do anything useful with these bits
and pieces in any language that is sufficiently different from
English.

> If you can't group the
> translatable bits into whole messages, you're pretty much stuck.
> Maybe Eli will have a suggestion on how to properly mark up this.

The proper way is like you said: gather the text into more or less
complete sentences or phrases.  See my other message for more details.