Re: gettext feature request

[Jean-Jacques Brucker]

Le 10/08/2021 à 17:22, Chet Ramey a écrit :
> This is the current description:
>
>         noexpand_translation
>                 If  set,  bash encloses the translated results of $"..."
>                 quoting in single quotes instead of double  quotes.   If
>                 the string is not translated, this has no effect.
>
> It will be in the next devel branch push.

Thank a lot Chet.

I still think it would have been more consistent to extend the $'...' 
syntax.

But this change is already a great feature, and I hope the gettext 
developers will warmly welcome it and then update their documentation.

Finally, this functionality which already reinforces the security, does 
not prevent another option which one could call 'translate_c_string' to 
translate the $'strings' (without any expansion).

(my idea of an additional variable like 'TEXTCDOMAIN' was indeed not 
that great)

If both options existed ('noexpand_translation' AND 
'translate_c_string'), I would prefer to use the second which is even 
more secure (either my strings are translated or they are not, but they 
can never be expanded).

But already I'm delighted to not plan horrible workarounds anymore, and 
if only 'noexpand_translation' is released, I'll be happy to use it. :-)

Cheers,
Jean-Jacques.

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