Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> wrote:
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 04:54:38PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> wrote:
But maybe we should consider those as internal errors (which I think they are) and report them as such, the string itself is probably as well left out of gettext entierely (but the error massage saying it was an internal error, that one need localization).
I agree that it'd be nice to improve those diagnostics.
How about if I mark the existing ones for now, with the proposed added comments? The comments can then serve as a reminder to rewrite them later.
/* FIXME: rewrite this diagnostic */ /* TRANSLATORS: no need to translate */
Hum, how that comment for the transaltors actually shows up in their tools ?
xgettext copies comments marked with "TRANSLATORS:" to the *.po files.
Honnestly I would rather avoid aving the string sent to them if we know they can't do anything.
Sure, we'd rather have good diagnostics everywhere, and still be able to automatically check for unmarked diagnostics. I've proposed a compromise that lets us defer the tedious (and low-priority, imho) work of improving diagnostics that are unlikely to be seen. If that is unsatisfactory, can you propose something else?