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From: | Gary V. Vaughan |
Subject: | Re: [Bug-gnulib] 4-gary-version-etc-full-author-string.patch |
Date: | Tue, 23 Sep 2003 13:58:43 +0100 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030903 Thunderbird/0.2 |
Bruno Haible wrote:
Gary V. Vaughan wrote:The function could then collect and count the AUTHORS and select an appropriate msgid at runtime, or botch together a good approximation if some package with 30 authors uses it...Here is a patch for it. I think it adresses all concerns: - Translators don't have excess work to do. - It internationalizes well, even in languages where commas and "and" are placed differently. - The code is simple, small, robust. - Line breaking does occur, but not at spaces within author names. Any objections?
Looks good to me. -- ())_. Gary V. Vaughan gary@(lilith.warpmail.net|gnu.org) ( '/ Research Scientist http://www.oranda.demon.co.uk ,_())____ / )= GNU Hacker http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool \' `& `(_~)_ Tech' Author http://sources.redhat.com/autobook =`---d__/
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