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Question about the translation of double_to_human

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Message #19 received at 13665 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: goeran <at> uddeborg.se, 13665 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#13665: Question about the translation of double_to_human
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 16:28:08 +0000

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On 02/09/2013 08:45 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> 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.

Both factor and numfmt recently introduced devel debug messages,
enabled by --verbose and ---devdebug respectively.
I've cleaned this up in the attached so that both use the same
method to output the messages, and both now enable these messages
with the the same ---debug option.
Also translations are removed from these messages,
and a syntax check added to stop future translations sneaking in in future.

thanks,
Pádraig.

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