[GRASS translations] Re: [GRASS-dev] Re: fprintf in raster modules converted to G_message

[Brad Douglas]

On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 16:41 +1300, Hamish wrote:
> Maris Nartiss wrote:
> > last night I was cleaning up GRASS translation and found GRASS error
> > messages very inconsistent.
> 
> In the past when adding i18n macros to modules I have used this method:
> 
> #search for messages already in use:
> grass-src$ cd raster
> raster$ grep -rI -A5 G_find_cell2 * | grep fatal
> 
> this gives a list of messages already used for that function (here
> G_find_cell2()), then I just reuse the nicest message from that list
> (prefer "raster map" to "cell file", <%s> brackets around map names,
> square brackets around values (invalid color [%s]), etc).
> 
> A centralized list would be a nice idea, but I would modify Brad's macro
> names,
> 
> -MSG_*
> +ERR_MSG_*
> +WRN_MSG_*
> 
> (and formalize usage of <> vs [], etc)
> 
> Brad:
> > Okay, we now have a standard set of messages, but now locale macros
> > need to be dealt with.  There's a few ways to deal with it, but none
> > of them seem trivial to me.
> 
> #define ERRMSG_RASTER_OPEN_FILE        _("Unable to find raster map <%s>")
> #define ERRMSG_RASTER_OPEN_FILE_MAPSET _("Unable to find raster map <%s@%s>")
> #define ERRMSG_RASTER_WRITE_FILE       _("Unable to write to raster map <%s>")
> ...
> 
> ?
> but these should probably live in a .h file, and would #include <glocale.h>
> at the top of that enough to get them translated at run time? (I assume not?)

What I meant by "not exactly trivial" is that the above will *require*
locale support.  Two conditional copies of the same thing to accommodate
with and without locale is ugly...even worse is definitions in two
separate files (glocale.h and another non-locale header).

I have no elegant answer.


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