On Sun, 30 Dec 2007, Philippe Grosjean wrote: > Hello, > > As I understand it, gettext() is designed to retrieve messages from > 'R-pkg' domains. As such, it cannot retrieve some of the messages in the > 'pkg' domains (those supposed to be accessed by C code only, I know), > namely, all messages ending with space(s) or \n. This is clearly > indicated in ?gettext (at least for trailing spaces): > > "For 'gettext', leading and trailing whitespace is ignored when looking > for the translation."
(\n _is_ whitespace). > So, my questions: > 1) Do I really need to write C code to retrieve all messages from 'pkg' > domain? Yes. > 2) Wouldn't it be useful to add an argument to gettext() (like trim = > TRUE), or alternatively, to propose a Gettext() function in utils > packages that allows retrieving those messages with trailing space(s) or > \n in 'pkg' domain from R code? Apparently only useful to you: it's certainly not useful for the internationalization of R itself, and I don't see why you can't organize the package so that the C-level messages don't have leading/trailing whitespace *if* you want to mix up domains. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
