[Monotone-devel] heads-up for developers and translators -- change in logging

[Nathaniel Smith]

I've just committed a change with a few parts:
  -- there is a new i18n_format type, which acts sort of like a
     boost::format, but is explicitly for translated strings
  -- F and FP now return i18n_format's; P/W/N/E now require
     i18n_format's.  Hopefully this will be useful in the future to
     help straighten out charset issues; in principle i18n_format's %
     operator can be taught to do charset conversion automatically,
     and refuse to accept strings of unknown charset.  We are not very
     good right now at converting things out of UTF-8.
  -- L still requires a boost::format; this means that L(F()) is now a
     compiler error!  There is a new macro "FL" which is just like
     F(), except it doesn't call gettext() and it returns a
     boost::format.

So, for developers:
  -- going forward, always use L(FL()) instead of L(F())

And for translators:
  -- log (debug) messages no longer appear as translateable strings;
     this should make your job much easier, and matches what a few
     of you have requested.
  -- tangentially, I also fixed the XGETTEXT_OPTIONS thing last night,
     so intltool-update should work again with latest mainline.  Sorry
     about that.

And for people maintaining branches:
  -- sorry about that, hope this isn't too disruptive...

-- Nathaniel

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