Re: gettext docs addition

[Bruno Haible]

Hi Marco,

Marco van de Voort wrote:
> the answer is here:
> 
> http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/sysutils/format.html
> 
> for ordinary strings

Thanks, I'm adding this information to the manual:


2010-04-25  Bruno Haible  <address@hidden>

        * gettext.texi (object-pascal-format): Add reference to Free Pascal
        documentation.
        Information provided by Marco van de Voort <address@hidden>.

--- gettext-tools/doc/gettext.texi.orig Sun Apr 25 11:27:11 2010
+++ gettext-tools/doc/gettext.texi      Sun Apr 25 11:03:04 2010
@@ -9096,7 +9096,9 @@
 @node object-pascal-format, ycp-format, awk-format, Translators for other 
Languages
 @subsection Object Pascal Format Strings
 
-Where is this documented?
+Object Pascal format strings are described in the documentation of the
+Free Pascal runtime library, section Format,
address@hidden://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/sysutils/format.html}.
 
 @node ycp-format, tcl-format, object-pascal-format, Translators for other 
Languages
 @subsection YCP Format Strings


> and for datetime strings: 
> 
> http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/sysutils/formatchars.html

It is true that datetime strings follow different rules, also in other
programming languages. But [x]gettext does not support them in a particular
way, because their use is much less frequent than printf format strings,
and the translation of datetime strings needs to be tested anyway.

Bruno