On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 04:53:51PM +0100, Josep Puigdemont wrote: > When we have strings to translate which are part of a script (I believe > in bash) like this one: > > #: /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions:441 > msgid "Start service $1 (Y)es/(N)o/(C)ontinue? [Y] " > > how should be proceed in respect to the answers expected by the script? > echo -n $"Start service $1 (Y)es/(N)o/(C)ontinue? [Y] " Translated input string > read answer > if strstr $"yY" "$answer" || [ "$answer" = "" ] ; then Translated match letters. So there should be yY nN and cC translations Alan -- The clouds are dark, the rain does pour But its sunny down at number four Across the road its foggy still And its snowing hard upon the hill - A guide to Swansea weather