localization of response in interactive menus

[Walter Koch]

Moin,

am / On Wed, 15 Dec 1999 10:12:36 +0100, schrieb Daniel Resare
<noa@melody.se> wrote: 

>I see a problem with translating this type of message
>and that is that you change the behaviour of the
>translated program depending on which locale the user chooses.

This is a sensitive area, but it should be no problem with modified user
input. It is an import feature of i18n. We have to handle it careful, of
course.

>But on the other hand it is nice to let the user use 
>a localized option to its input.

Not only nice, it is IMHO required.


>The ideal solution to this as I see it is that the english
>versions of these 'response'-strings are hardcoded into
>the c-source along with the N_()-marked strings that the
>translators translates to their native languages. 

This work. But maybe there are languages, where "Y" means No or "N" means
Yes. So Werner should mark the hardcoded Y and N with a comment, that
forbids the translation of this strings, but in those languages.

Gruss,
  Walter (de)
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