Re: lynx-dev Re: Lynx with GNU gettext NLS support

[François Pinard]

Ulrich Drepper <address@hidden> écrit:

> User responses should be parsed using rpmatch() if available.  This
> function uses the appropriate values from the LC_MESSAGES category.
> The replacement function Jim and I wrote uses gettext and I think it's
> ok to use gettext here.  First, the translators are adviced to
> recognize the English form y/n.  Second, I have yet to find a case
> where it makes problems to recognize the translated forms.  They
> normally start differently.

Translators may not easily break a program, currently.  For exemple, formats
are checked for valid correspondence at PO file compilation.  The problem is
that if the translators do not follow your advice, as it happens, nothing
will tell them, and they may unexpectedly change the program behaviour.
This may be very inconvenient when the Y/N is to confirm dangerous actions.

I still think we are not mature enough to manage such things safely.
Users are not always fully aware of the setting of LANG or LANGUAGE, it
adds a bit of unpredictibility to such user inputs.

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