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

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Richard Henderson wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 09:49:55PM +0200, FX Coudert wrote:
> > +      sprintf (message, _("less than rank %d"), GFC_MAX_DIMENSIONS);
> > +      must_be (source, 0, message);
> 
> Things like this mean that you're essentially printing one
> message as two phrase fragments.  This won't translate well.
> You need to present the entire sentence as a unit to the 
> translators.

The C++ front end is full of this sort of thing.  (Paolo Bonzini's patch 
<http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2002-06/msg01620.html> tried to address 
some such problems but I don't think any version of that patch was ever 
reviewed.)  Bug 15586 has comments giving some examples of this sort of 
thing in gfortran; I don't know whether this patch fixes any or all of 
them but don't think fixing them all can be something that blocks this 
patch.

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