Re: i18n problems in texinfo

[Akim Demaille]

| Sorry for as late response, I have only now looked into this issue
| closer.
| 
| Could you please explain why did you need to translate those strings
| at all?  The N_ macro doesn't invoke gettext, it evaluates to its
| argument unchanged.  In other words, those strings are not supposed
| to be translated at all.
| 
| Karl, is that true or am I missing something?

N_ marks the string for gettext, they are marked `to be translated',
and the invocation of gettext is elsewhere.

const char *foo = N_("Hello world");
printf ("%s\n", _(foo));