On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 11:30 -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > And so on (there are several more). Note that here we use "check > constraint" without any capitalization. However this doesn't > translate > too well as is; I mean, if I were to translate "check" into its > equivalent spanish word, I'm sure to cause a great deal of confusion. > So I've opted for putting the check word, verbatim, in quotes; for > example: > > msgid "check constraint \"%s\" already exists" > msgstr "la restricción «check» «%s» ya existe" > > However this is also a bit ugly because I now have two sets of quoted > words -- check itself and then the constraint name.
I can't really advise you with the language issue, but I think just writing check without quotes would be fine here. I also find it useful on occasion to consult existing (non-PostgreSQL, non-MySQL) books about databases in the respective language for typical translations. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
