Re: [gfortran,patch] Internationalisation of the Fortran front-end

["Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>]

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, FX Coudert wrote:

>    1. Messages issued by gfc_error, gfc_warning and other functions
> called on constant strings are translated using the msgid convention.
> That is, developpers will not have to worry about the localization of
> such messages.

You appear to have used gmsgid for these functions so the messages are 
marked as gcc-internal-format in gcc.pot.  This is otherwise used for 
pretty-print.c formats (with front-end extensions).  Does gettext 0.14.5 
understand the gfortran internal formats (so it can check translations 
keep the same formats as the original message) with gcc-internal-format?

The first two lines of --version output (with version number and copyright 
notice) should not be translated; only the copyright symbol should be 
translated as _("(C)") so it becomes a copyright symbol in locales with 
one in their character set.  See other --version code for examples.

> PS: I don't know if a complete ChangeLog is needed, or if I can just
> list the files and functions and say "Added localisation support". I
> added the gcc.pot generated with maintainer mode, so that you can check
> it if you want.

A full ChangeLog would for the most part do that.  There's no point in 
sending gcc.pot or patches to it to the lists.

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