# Re: [PATCH] Fix translation of strings in foreach lists. 1 messages from 2007-07-24 to 2007-07-24. Participants: Brett Schwarz. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/9205 ## Brett Schwarz, 2007-07-24 17:54 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix translation of strings in foreach lists. Message-ID: <59193.87306.qm@web38905.mail.mud.yahoo.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/59193.87306.qm%40web38905.mail.mud.yahoo.com ``` > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Christian Stimming > To: Shawn O. Pearce > Cc: Brett Schwarz ; git@vger.kernel.org; Paul Mackerras ; Junio C Hamano > Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 8:20:28 AM > Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix translation of strings in foreach lists. > > Quoting "Shawn O. Pearce" : > >> >I not sure if it's worth changing, but you don't necessarily need > >> >those [append]'s in there. > >> > >> Thanks for the info. It is basically up to Shawn to decide which style > >> he likes more. > > > > "[mc Foo]\n\n$err" > > > > is much shorter. So I'd prefer that over [append [mc Foo] "\n\n$err"]. > > Err, but the usual case is that the argument to [mc] is more than one > word, and (additionally) that argument has to be quoted by > double-quotes (as opposed to braces) because otherwise xgettext > doesn't extract the message correctly. Hence, the only possibility > here were > > "[mc "Some Text"]\n\n$err" > > Is this valid Tcl? Being a newcomer to this language I have to says > the quotes here look rather strange :-) > Yes, that's valid. bschwarz@bschwarz-desktop:~/gittcl$ tclsh % package require msgcat 1.3.4 % namespace import msgcat::mc % set err "ERROR" ERROR % msgcat::mcset en "hello there" HOWDY HOWDY % puts "[mc "hello there"]\n\n$err" HOWDY ERROR % HTH, --brett ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for a deal? Find great prices on flights and hotels with Yahoo! FareChase. http://farechase.yahoo.com/ ```