On Sep 26, 2011, at 5:42 PM, Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi Tristan,
>
>> I think that currently we always use i18n macro _("xx") for all our strings
>> - or we are supposed to.
>> As you have noticed, this is sometimes useless, particularly when the string
>> is not subject to
>> translation.
>>
>> Maintainers, must we not use _() macro for non-translatable string ?
>>
>> I don't know if there was such a rule, but this is not clear at least to me.
>
> Actually there is a rule, or at least a guidance:
>
> http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Internationalization
>
> Using GNU gettext involves putting a call to the
> gettext macro around each string that might need
> translation—like this:
>
> printf (gettext ("Processing file `%s'..."));
>
> Ie, "gettext()" or its abbreviation "_()" should only be used for strings
> that might need translation. Where translation is unnecessary, it should not
> be used.
>
Ok, thanks. I should read standards.texi more often.
I will propose a patch to fix many of them.
Tristan.
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