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Re: Bug#451382: i18n is NOT so easy!

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From: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: Bug#451382: i18n is NOT so easy!
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:06:42 +0000
In-reply-to: Message from Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> of "Sun, 09 Dec 2007 14:49:53 PST." <071209144953.ZM14121@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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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.)

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Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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References:
- Re: Bug#451382: i18n is NOT so easy!
  - From: Bart Schaefer

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