Re: Patch to reduce the number of messages to translate - Mailing list pgsql-jdbc

From Kris Jurka
Subject Re: Patch to reduce the number of messages to translate
Date
Msg-id Pine.BSO.4.56.0412171641070.29231@leary.csoft.net
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In response to Patch to reduce the number of messages to translate  ("Xavier Poinsard" <xpoinsard@free.fr>)
Responses Re: Patch to reduce the number of messages to translate  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Xavier Poinsard wrote:

> The attached patch reduces the number of messages to translate by using
> a parameter to regroup similar messages.
> For example "Bad short" => "Bad {0}" with "short" as argument.
> This way "Bad int" becomes "Bad {0}" we have reduced the number of
> messages to translate.
>

Is this a good idea?  I'm willing to take your word as someone who
actually does translations, but I wanted to confirm that parameterizing
the message in this way won't cause translation problems.  Is this only a
reasonable thing to do because the existing error message text isn't all
that informative?

Kris Jurka

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