Re: [PATCH] Added note for translators to gai_strerror.c, so they don't translate param names.

[Micah Cowan]

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Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Micah Cowan on 10/25/2007 10:13 AM:
>> +    /* TRANSLATORS: Servname and ai_socktype are formal parameter names,
>> +       and should not be translated. */
>>      { EAI_SERVICE, N_("Servname not supported for ai_socktype") },
> 
> Would it perhaps be worth rendering this as:
> 
> _("`Servname' not supported for `ai_socktype'")
> 
> further emphasizing the literalness of the parameter names?

Only the fact that, as someone pointed out, it's apparently become the
"traditional" message for that error.

I personally have nothing particular against it; but if we do that, we
should alter a few others similarly (I know there's at least one more
reference to ai_socktype among those messages).

I imagine in that case, that the TRANSLATORS: comment would no longer be
necessary.

Keep in mind, of course, how this will look when address@hidden I
don't know whether that's good or bad, but I can't recall seeing normal
system quotes with bolding like that.

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Micah J. Cowan
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