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Re: I18N (3/4): Fortran
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 01:20:56AM +0100, Toon Moene wrote:
> Zack Weinberg wrote:
>
> > In the course of developing the previous two patches I discovered that
> > most of the Fortran front end's error messages were not translated at
> > all. This corrects the situation for all the error messages I could
> > find. It should not be construed as the _right_ patch; the right
> > patch would obliterate f/bad.* and use the generic extensible diagnostic
> > framework. However, that would be (a) too invasive for the
> > bugfix-only phase, and (b) too invasive for my sanity.
>
> Hmmmm, so you think this patch is not invasive ;-)
It is a very long patch, but most of it is search-and-replace changes
to bad.def. You would prefer I had rewritten all the error handling
code, which would have touched the entire front end? ;-/
> [I go on record as to say that my turkish is below average, so don't
> expect any swift action on bug reports featuring error messages in
> that language (to say nothing about Hungarian) ]
We should probably add a note to the bug reporting instructions saying
please temporarily set LANG=C to get error messages to report with a
bug. (Only better worded.)
zw