[GRASS-dev] [GRASS-SVN] r60669 - grass/trunk/vector/v.vol.rst

[Huidae Cho]

Those links are good reads. Less hell for translators, and more typing for
developers. I'm on both sides. ;-)


On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> if I may make a suggestion on the message translation:
>
> On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 4:14 PM,  <svn_grass at osgeo.org> wrote:
> > Author: hcho
> > Date: 2014-06-02 07:14:16 -0700 (Mon, 02 Jun 2014)
> > New Revision: 60669
> >
> > Modified:
> >    grass/trunk/vector/v.vol.rst/dataoct.c
> >    grass/trunk/vector/v.vol.rst/main.c
> >    grass/trunk/vector/v.vol.rst/user1.c
> >    grass/trunk/vector/v.vol.rst/user2.c
> >    grass/trunk/vector/v.vol.rst/user3.c
> >    grass/trunk/vector/v.vol.rst/vector.c
> > Log:
> > v.vol.rst: translate error/warning messages
>
> All these messages need now to be translated separately (translator "hell"
> :):
>
> > -       G_fatal_error("Not enough memory for az");
> > +       G_fatal_error(_("Not enough memory for az"));
> >      adx = (double *)G_malloc(sizeof(double) * (n_cols + 1));
> >      if (!adx)
> > -       G_fatal_error("Not enough memory for adx");
> > +       G_fatal_error(_("Not enough memory for adx"));
> >      ady = (double *)G_malloc(sizeof(double) * (n_cols + 1));
> >      if (!ady)
> > -       G_fatal_error("Not enough memory for ady");
> > +       G_fatal_error(_("Not enough memory for ady"));
> >      adxx = (double *)G_malloc(sizeof(double) * (n_cols + 1));
> >      if (!adxx)
> [...]
>
> A better way may be (needs to be properly declared, just as example)
>
>  G_fatal_error(_("Not enough memory for %s"), mapname);
>
> This reduces the work to one string and the rest comes in dynamically.
>
> Furthermore it would be good to sync the messages to v.surf.rst to
> make them as identical as possible.
>
> Some best practice is described here:
> https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/MessageStandardization
>
> (which I now liked at
> http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_messages_translation)
>
> Best
> Markus
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