Re: [PATCH 1/7] Add missing punctuation to message (PR driver/79875)

[Roland Illig <roland dot illig at gmx dot de>]

Am 10.03.2017 um 05:12 schrieb Martin Sebor:
> I have just an observation/question here for future consideration.
> If this sort of diagnostic is common (I count 23 instances of it)
> or if it is expected to become common, would it make sense to add
> a directive for it to the pretty printer to ensure consistency?
> I.e., to automatically prepend "; did you mean" and append the
> "?" to the new directive?

As a translator, I'm not too concerned about this one, although it looks
very similar to the repeated "%qs requires %qs", which often appears for
command line options.

My main argument is that the "did you mean" is not just a name for a
thing, but it is part of the sentence grammar. To me that feels like too
much magic for a rarely used case (compared to %D or %qE or %qT, which
appear so often that I'm now very familiar with them).

Also, when adding a placeholder like %H for it, there would be no
surrounding whitespace, similar to %K. That confused me as a translator
when I first saw it, since it is not nicely documented; neither in the
Gettext manual
(https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html#gcc_002dinternal_002dformat)
nor in the GCC files implementing them. There should be at least some
examples of what each placeholder typically expands to.

Roland