GNU bug report logs - #13665
Question about the translation of double_to_human

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Göran Uddeborg <goeran <at> uddeborg.se>

Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2013 18:44:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #16 received at 13665 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: 13665 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, P <at> draigBrady.com, goeran <at> uddeborg.se
Subject: Re: bug#13665: Question about the translation of double_to_human
Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2013 12:45:56 -0800

On 02/09/2013 11:26 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> These are function names and not to be translated.
> These are "developer debug" strings, which I'm tempted to remove entirely.

Certainly "simple_strtod_human:\n" should not be translated,
as it's referring to the identifier.

Since the source code is written in English, we can safely
assume developers read English, so there's no point to translating
messages intended only for developers.
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