Re: LYNX-DEV messages file

[T.E.Dickey]

> This surprises me- I thought that all of the messages had been moved out. 
Just the commonly-used ones, I'd thought.  The logging messages mostly aren't,
but the ones that go to the status line are (probably).

> There are however quite a number of msgs which still appear in the lynx 
> specific source code.  What surprised me is how many errors are 
> output to stdout rather than stderr .   There are 42 printf 
> statements in the lynx src directory alone - I didn't attempt to determine 
> how many are in the various other libraries and utilities.  Of these  
> 42 printf's, 12 of them appear to use defines from a header file. 
> There are also some of the hundreds of sprintf which have english in the 
> actual format string, rather than using something from a message header. 
> And of the over 700 fprintf messages, a significant number have english 
> in them. 
>  
> There's a lot of work to truely make lynx international... 
yes - I agree with that.  The format-string aspect is one that I don't
recall that gettext really addresses (since you may want to switch the
order of substitutions for some languages).

> Larry W. Virden                 INET: address@hidden 

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