Re: lynx-dev Three small typos in po/lynx.pot

[Henry Nelson]

> I have found 3 small typos in po/lynx.pot file (I am using lynx-2.8.3dev4).
> The second is rather serious! :)
> Please consider to apply this diff:
> 
> --dima
> 
> 
> --- lynx.pot.orig     Sat Jul 17 19:31:20 1999
> +++ lynx.pot  Sat Jul 17 19:41:02 1999
> @@ -2317,7 +2317,7 @@
>  msgstr ""
>  
>  #: LYMessages.c:723
> -msgid "Trace Log open failed.  Trace off!."
> +msgid "Trace Log open failed.  Trace off!"
>  msgstr ""
>  
>  #: LYMessages.c:724
> @@ -2736,7 +2736,7 @@
>  
>  #: WWW/Library/Implementation/HTAccess.c:1038
>  msgid ""
> -"**** HTAccess: Internal software error.  Please mail address@hidden"
> +"**** HTAccess: Internal software error.  Please mail address@hidden"
>  msgstr ""

Typos of this type must be corrected in the _source file_, in this case
"LYMessages.c" and "HTAccess.c".  If you "correct" the lynx.pot file, and
that "correction" is then carried over to your *.po file, that particular
string will never be translated to the msgstr.  A reasonable strategy for
the translator is to make the translation correct and ignore the faulty
English, or English which is not appropriate to your site.

In general, I would highly recommend from personal experience that you
completely ignore the distributed lynx.pot file, and create a fresh one
from your break out source using the tools (xgettext, msgmerge) that
you have installed _on your system_.  You should install the latest
available tools.  IMO, you would be ill-advised to use the package in
/intl that is distributed with Lynx since it is out of date and buggy.

__Henry