From 9443f57b045ee203f9cb772b3a4893b7eaa20419 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benno Schulenberg Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 21:26:54 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] remove: improve translator comment by reinstating older version * src/remove.c (prompt): Explain where the difficulty with translating these two strings resides, and suggest an alternative: the one that Paul Eggert first proposed back in 2002, which seems fully resistant. --- src/remove.c | 9 +++++---- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/remove.c b/src/remove.c index b98f3ec..4cc4a08 100644 --- a/src/remove.c +++ b/src/remove.c @@ -283,10 +283,11 @@ prompt (FTS const *fts, FTSENT const *ent, bool is_dir, fprintf (stderr, (write_protected - /* TRANSLATORS: You may find it more convenient to - translate "%s: remove %s (write-protected) %s? " - instead. It should avoid grammatical problems - with the output of file_type. */ + /* TRANSLATORS: In the next two strings the second %s is + replaced by the type of the file. To avoid grammatical + problems, it may be more convenient to translate these + strings instead as: "%1$s: %3$s is write-protected and + is of type '%2$s' -- remove it? ". */ ? _("%s: remove write-protected %s %s? ") : _("%s: remove %s %s? ")), program_name, file_type (sbuf), quoted_name); -- 1.7.0.4