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Re: [PATCH] create a convenient function to align/print option help text
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Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy |
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Re: [PATCH] create a convenient function to align/print option help text |
Date: |
Mon, 3 Sep 2012 10:58:42 +0700 |
On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 6:36 AM, Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> wrote:
> Thanks for doing that.
> I really like this, but wouldn't it invalidate all the existing translations?
> It seems there would be a lot of work in transitioning coreutils usage()
> functions
> to the scheme, but even more work munging existing translations?
Existing translations should remain (though marked fuzzy). Translators
just need to go through remove redundant parts.
The thing is translations should be updated anyway because of
misalignment (I only checked ja and vi). We could use this opportunity
to avoid potential work for translators later (e.g. a new long option
is added and the whole table needs to be realigned, which currently
changes every help string, or a misalign in original strings
propagated to all translations).
--
Duy