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[hurd,commited] hurd: Document how to translate EIEIO error message
From: |
Samuel Thibault |
Subject: |
[hurd,commited] hurd: Document how to translate EIEIO error message |
Date: |
Wed, 31 Oct 2018 01:51:27 +0100 |
* sysdeps/gnu/errlist.c (EIEIO): Document how translators should
translate the error message.
---
ChangeLog | 5 +++++
sysdeps/gnu/errlist.c | 13 +++++++++++++
2 files changed, 18 insertions(+)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 86040c06a6..c2d1d845db 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2018-10-31 Samuel Thibault <address@hidden>
+
+ * sysdeps/gnu/errlist.c (EIEIO): Document how translators should
+ translate the error message.
+
2018-10-30 Joseph Myers <address@hidden>
* conform/linknamespace.py: New file.
diff --git a/sysdeps/gnu/errlist.c b/sysdeps/gnu/errlist.c
index 31ebfa9491..ccb9986f57 100644
--- a/sysdeps/gnu/errlist.c
+++ b/sysdeps/gnu/errlist.c
@@ -975,6 +975,19 @@ TRANS You did @strong{what}? */
#ifdef EIEIO
/*
TRANS Go home and have a glass of warm, dairy-fresh milk. */
+TRANS @c Okay. Since you are dying to know, I'll tell you.
+TRANS @c This is a joke, obviously. There is a children's song which begins,
+TRANS @c "Old McDonald had a farm, e-i-e-i-o." Every time I see the (real)
+TRANS @c errno macro EIO, I think about that song. Probably most of my
+TRANS @c compatriots who program on Unix do, too. One of them must have stayed
+TRANS @c up a little too late one night and decided to add it to Hurd or Glibc.
+TRANS @c Whoever did it should be castigated, but it made me laugh.
+TRANS @c address@hidden
+TRANS @c
+TRANS @c "bought the farm" means "died". -jtobey
+TRANS @c
+TRANS @c Translators, please do not translate this litteraly, translate it into
+TRANS @c an idiomatic funny way of saying that the computer died.
[ERR_REMAP (EIEIO)] = N_("Computer bought the farm"),
# if EIEIO > ERR_MAX
# undef ERR_MAX
--
2.19.1
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