On 11/5/21 4:12 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
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"
I can reproduce Henrik's report and the problem there is that the
trailing \n is stripped by R before doing the lookup, in do_gettext
/* strip leading and trailing white spaces and
add back after translation */
for(p = tmp;
*p && (*p == ' ' || *p == '\t' || *p == '\n');
p++, ihead++) ;
But, calling dgettext with the trailing \n does translate correctly for me.
I'd leave to translation experts how this should work (e.g. whether the
.po files should have trailing newlines).
Tomas
Duncan Murdoch
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