On Wed, 3 Feb 2016, Manfred Schwarb wrote: > There are 2 things with translation, and there is a third issue: > - As you noticed, breaking things differently means translation has to be > done again. > - Normally, each string is translated independently, and depending on the > language there may be lack of context (e.g. adjectives get different > suffixes > depending on the noun).
I believe gettext works fine with (compile-time) string constant concatenation - that is, extracts the whole concatenated string for translation, so these are non-issues. What doesn't work includes: * Runtime concatenation of strings or otherwise putting English fragments together at runtime. * String constant concatenation where one of the concatenated pieces comes from a macro expansion. * The argument for translation being a conditional expression: error (cond ? "message 1" : "message 2"); (in this case, only one of the messages may be extracted for translation, so you need to mark both of them up with appropriate macros such as G_). -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com
