On 05/11/2021 10:51 a.m., Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
I'm trying to reuse some of the translations available in base R by using:
gettext(msgid, domain="R")
This works great for most 'msgid's, e.g.
$ LANGUAGE=de Rscript -e 'gettext("cannot get working directory", domain="R")'
[1] "kann das Arbeitsverzeichnis nicht ermitteln"
However, it does not work for all. For instance,
$ LANGUAGE=de Rscript -e 'gettext("Execution halted\n", domain="R")'
[1] "Execution halted\n"
This despite that 'msgid' existing in:
$ grep -C 2 -F 'Execution halted\n' src/library/base/po/de.po
#: src/main/main.c:342
msgid "Execution halted\n"
msgstr "Ausführung angehalten\n"
It could be that the trailing newline causes problems, because the
same happens also for:
$ LANGUAGE=de Rscript --vanilla -e 'gettext("error during cleanup\n",
domain="R")'
[1] "error during cleanup\n"
Is this meant to work, and if so, how do I get it to work, or is it a bug?
I don't know the solution, but I think the cause is different than you
think, because I also have the problem with other strings not including
"\n":
$ LANGUAGE=de Rscript -e 'gettext("malformed version string", domain="R")'
[1] "malformed version string"
Duncan Murdoch
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