Re: [patch] Allow translation of the copyright symbol.

["Joseph S. Myers" <jsm at polyomino dot org dot uk>]

On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Kazu Hirata wrote:

> @@ -347,14 +347,14 @@ lang_specific_driver (int *in_argc, cons
>  	case OPTION_version:
>  	  printf ("\
>  GNU Fortran (GCC) %s\n\
> -Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.\n\
> +Copyright %s 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.\n\
>  \n\
>  GNU Fortran comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.\n\

Note that none of this message is marked for translation at present.  The
copyright message part should be a separate string from the test, and the
second part should be marked for translation with _.  This isn't however
something that needs to be fixed in this patch; it's a separate problem.

>    printf ("gcjh (GCC) %s\n\n", version_string);
> -  printf ("Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.\n");
> +  printf ("Copyright %s 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.\n", _("(C)"));
>    printf ("This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO\n");
>    printf ("warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.\n\n");

Here, the subsequent lines should be one string, marked for translation.  
Again a separate problem.  Likewise for the other Java programs.

Note that translation has no effect in a program unless it sets up the
locale and libintl properly.  The way to do this is gcc_init_libintl ().  
mips-tdump, mips-tfile and all the programs from gcc/java/ don't do this,
so you won't get the copyright symbol translated in them either.

I think all these things would be good to have fixed for 3.4 (before we
submit a new message catalog to the TP), but it's up to the RM.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jsm@polyomino.org.uk