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Re: [Bug-gnulib] 4-gary-version-etc-full-author-string.patch
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: [Bug-gnulib] 4-gary-version-etc-full-author-string.patch |
Date: |
Wed, 17 Sep 2003 13:57:56 +0200 |
Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
>> I'm reluctant to prepend the string, `Written by ' to the value of
>> AUTHORS in each of the 90 programs in the coreutils.
>
> That's not exactly what I'd recommend. Rather, for best i18n I would like
> several cases:
>
> printf (_("Written by %s."), AUTHOR1);
> printf (_("Written by %s and %s."), AUTHOR1, AUTHOR2);
> printf (_("Written by %s, %s and %s."), AUTHOR1, AUTHOR2, AUTHOR3);
> etc.
Instead, how about just changing "Written by %s\n."
in version_etc.c to "Author(s): %s\n"
or just "Authors: %s\n"
Then I could change each per-file AUTHORS definition
so it is no longer a translatable string, removing any `and'
and just leaving comma-separated lists of names.
- [Bug-gnulib] 4-gary-version-etc-full-author-string.patch, Gary V. Vaughan, 2003/09/16
- Re: [Bug-gnulib] 4-gary-version-etc-full-author-string.patch, Paul Eggert, 2003/09/16
- Re: [Bug-gnulib] 4-gary-version-etc-full-author-string.patch, Jim Meyering, 2003/09/16
- Re: [Bug-gnulib] 4-gary-version-etc-full-author-string.patch, Bruno Haible, 2003/09/17
- Re: [Bug-gnulib] 4-gary-version-etc-full-author-string.patch,
Jim Meyering <=
- Re: [Bug-gnulib] 4-gary-version-etc-full-author-string.patch, Bruno Haible, 2003/09/17
- Re: [Bug-gnulib] 4-gary-version-etc-full-author-string.patch, Gary V. Vaughan, 2003/09/17
- Re: [Bug-gnulib] 4-gary-version-etc-full-author-string.patch, Jim Meyering, 2003/09/17
- Re: [Bug-gnulib] 4-gary-version-etc-full-author-string.patch, Bruno Haible, 2003/09/18
- Re: [Bug-gnulib] 4-gary-version-etc-full-author-string.patch, Jim Meyering, 2003/09/18
- Re: [Bug-gnulib] 4-gary-version-etc-full-author-string.patch, Paul Eggert, 2003/09/18
- Re: [Bug-gnulib] 4-gary-version-etc-full-author-string.patch, Jim Meyering, 2003/09/18
- Re: [Bug-gnulib] 4-gary-version-etc-full-author-string.patch, Jim Meyering, 2003/09/18
- Re: [Bug-gnulib] 4-gary-version-etc-full-author-string.patch, Bruno Haible, 2003/09/19
- Re: [Bug-gnulib] 4-gary-version-etc-full-author-string.patch, Bruno Haible, 2003/09/19