Re: address@hidden: Note--don't translate "Copyright"]

[Bruno Haible]

On Thursday 25 July 2002 06:53, Karl Eichwalder wrote:

> At the .po file level we can try to make sure that whenever "Copyright"
> appears at column 0 resp. 1 of a msgid, it must be present in the
> msgstr field, too.

Don't push too much on msgfmt's checks. There are three perfect solutions
that work fine with the current tools:

1) see fileutils:

char* version_etc_copyright =
  /* Do *not* mark this string for translation.  */
  "Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.";
  
2) Add a translator comment.

   /* TRANSLATORS: The word 'Copyright' must stay untranslated.  */
   fputs (_("Copyright ..."))

3) Use a %s.

   /* TRANSLATORS: %s gets replaced by the word "Copyright".  */
   printf (_("(C) %s 2002 ..."), "Copyright");

Bruno