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Re: expr say "non integer argument"


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: Re: expr say "non integer argument"
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:51:40 +0100

Voelker, Bernhard wrote:
> Eric Blake wrote:
>
>>According to Voelker, Bernhard on 2/18/2010 8:31 AM:
>>>> -            error (EXPR_INVALID, 0, _("non-numeric argument"));
>>>> +            error (EXPR_INVALID, 0, _("non-integer argument"));
>>>
>>> Maybe a dumb question:
>>> Why's the error message hardcoded?
>>
>>It isn't.
>>
>>> Isn't there localization for this error message?
>>
>> Yep - _("...") is the localization.  It is a macro that calls gettext, and
>> gettext does all the work of translating it according to your locale
>> environment variables.
>
> so the patch implies that there's already a translation for
> "non-integer argument", right?

No.  Once a new translatable string appears in a source file,
it propagates to the po/*.pot file for the next release.




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