From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13375 invoked from network); 10 Dec 2007 00:07:34 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 10 Dec 2007 00:07:34 -0000 Received-SPF: none (ns1.primenet.com.au: domain at sunsite.dk does not designate permitted sender hosts) Received: (qmail 89410 invoked from network); 10 Dec 2007 00:07:26 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 10 Dec 2007 00:07:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 14080 invoked by alias); 10 Dec 2007 00:07:17 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 24203 Received: (qmail 14060 invoked from network); 10 Dec 2007 00:07:16 -0000 Received: from bifrost.dotsrc.org (130.225.254.106) by sunsite.dk with SMTP; 10 Dec 2007 00:07:16 -0000 Received: from virusfilter.dotsrc.org (bifrost [127.0.0.1]) by spamfilter.dotsrc.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7248A801CDCF for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 01:04:51 +0100 (CET) Received: from a.mx.sunsite.dk (new-brage.dotsrc.org [130.225.254.104]) by bifrost.dotsrc.org (Postfix) with SMTP for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 01:04:51 +0100 (CET) Received: (qmail 89115 invoked from network); 10 Dec 2007 00:07:14 -0000 Received: from mtaout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com (81.103.221.49) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 10 Dec 2007 00:07:08 -0000 Received: from aamtaout04-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.35]) by mtaout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20071210000737.JSCE26125.mtaout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@aamtaout04-winn.ispmail.ntl.com>; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:07:37 +0000 Received: from pws-pc.ntlworld.com ([82.6.96.116]) by aamtaout04-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20071210000700.HSBG29112.aamtaout04-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@pws-pc.ntlworld.com>; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:07:00 +0000 Received: from pws-pc.ntlworld.com (pws-pc.ntlworld.com [127.0.0.1]) by pws-pc.ntlworld.com (8.14.1/8.13.8) with ESMTP id lBA06gpk018054; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:06:43 GMT Message-Id: <200712100006.lBA06gpk018054@pws-pc.ntlworld.com> From: Peter Stephenson To: 451382@bugs.debian.org, zsh-workers@sunsite.dk, pws@pws-pc.ntlworld.com Subject: Re: Bug#451382: i18n is NOT so easy! In-Reply-To: Message from Bart Schaefer of "Sun, 09 Dec 2007 14:49:53 PST." <071209144953.ZM14121@torch.brasslantern.com> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:06:42 +0000 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Bart Schaefer wrote: > I'd be cautious about treating everything up to the first colon in a > $"..." string as a msgid key, though. Error messages are going to > look like $"thing that failed: reason it failed" a lot of the time. Or > would that have to be written "thing that failed: "$"reason it failed" > for this to work in the first place? Anyway, it might be better to > adopt something like $"{msgid}original text" and treat both $"{message}" > and $"message" the same when only one of the two parts is found. Fine, that gives us an easier test for whether there's a special msgid anyway. (I would still propose that msgid has to consist only of shell identifier characters for simplicity.) -- Peter Stephenson Web page now at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/p.w.stephenson/