PATCH: translation of commands

[Werner Koch]

On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote:

> Here's a patch which, I think, helps with the i18n of commands. A
> translater may translate "help|?|" as "hilfe|help|?", for example, and
> then any unambiguous prefix of "hilfe" or of "help" will be accepted.

Thanks for the path.  But I think that this gets too complicated for
command line options.  It should be possible even for a non-english
speaking user to enter some letters as described in the documentaion
(which of course should be in her language).  Keeping the code clean
is a major design issue.  

Translating Yes/No/Quit and leaving the english ones as alias is IMO
okay, as users are often used to just hit the J key (German) or the
Y-key.  

Messages are another issue as they transport an important message to
the user which may be really relevant to the operation of the program 

GUIs and Buttons do make this issue much easier.

So sorry, I will not apply this patch.


   Werner


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