> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Christian Stimming <stimming@xxxxxxx>
> To: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Brett Schwarz <brett_schwarz@xxxxxxxxx>; git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>; Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 8:20:28 AM
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix translation of strings in foreach lists.
>
> Quoting "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> >> >I not sure if it's worth changing, but you don't necessarily need
> >> >those [append]'s in there.
> >>
> >> Thanks for the info. It is basically up to Shawn to decide which style
> >> he likes more.
> >
> > "[mc Foo]\n\n$err"
> >
> > is much shorter. So I'd prefer that over [append [mc Foo] "\n\n$err"].
>
> Err, but the usual case is that the argument to [mc] is more than one
> word, and (additionally) that argument has to be quoted by
> double-quotes (as opposed to braces) because otherwise xgettext
> doesn't extract the message correctly. Hence, the only possibility
> here were
>
> "[mc "Some Text"]\n\n$err"
>
> Is this valid Tcl? Being a newcomer to this language I have to says
> the quotes here look rather strange :-)
>
Yes, that's valid.
bschwarz@bschwarz-desktop:~/gittcl$ tclsh
% package require msgcat
1.3.4
% namespace import msgcat::mc
% set err "ERROR"
ERROR
% msgcat::mcset en "hello there" HOWDY
HOWDY
% puts "[mc "hello there"]\n\n$err"
HOWDY
ERROR
%
HTH,
--brett
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