localization of response in interactive menus

[Werner Koch]

 On Wed, Dec 15, 1999 at 11:11:34PM +0100
 Walter Koch wrote:

> 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.

Is gettext able to distinguish between to version of "yes"?  I don't
believe so because the only information used to lookup the translation
is the string itself.  A workaround may be to prefix the english only
yes with some string and hardcode the length of this string into the 
program.

Frankly, I don't believe that there are languages which do swap the
meaning of Y and N and if they answer strings are tanslated it
shouldn't harm anyway becuase the hardcoded english answers will never
be used.


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