PSPP-BUG: Re: [bug #21062] Add en_US, en_GB translations

[Ben Pfaff]

John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:

> On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 04:51:44AM +0000, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>      
>      My thought was that, as in the Linux kernel, each developer would simply
>      spell words as he preferred, and then people with different preferences 
> could
>      use locali[sz]ation to adjust to taste. 
>
> That would also have been one way to do it.  It would have meant that
> a en_US.po file would have become necessary.  Actually, I think
> there's some merit in the way that aegis deals with the issue:  The
> source code contains short, terse message strings, and they're
> translated into verbose, user friendly messages in the l10n files.

I don't think I like that idea, for two reasons.  First, it
requires updating two files (instead of just one) whenever a
string is added, removed, or changed.  Second, it makes the
program(me?) unusable on a system on which the l10n files have
not been properly installed.

Anyway, I'm glad that we have an alternative that leaves no one
too unhappy.
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