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authorZack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com>2002-09-18 05:07:02 +0000
committerZack Weinberg <zack@gcc.gnu.org>2002-09-18 05:07:02 +0000
commitbfb530012dd73655782b01bb993117e386dbe09b (patch)
tree4468337afdc0a0dd503914ca0b8eaf765cba83b9 /gcc/ABOUT-GCC-NLS
parent825dda426b6951e40f7b0f6c8ef86e6aad86740a (diff)
ABOUT-GCC-NLS: Remove reference to enquire...
* ABOUT-GCC-NLS: Remove reference to enquire, and out-of-date statement that the only translation is to en_UK. From-SVN: r57267
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@@ -5,19 +5,16 @@ Some work remains in other areas; for example, GCC does not yet allow
non-ASCII letters in identifiers.
Not all of GCC's diagnostic messages have been internationalized. Programs
-like `enquire' and `genattr' (in fact all gen* programs) are not
-internationalized, as their users are GCC maintainers who typically need
-to be able to read English anyway; internationalizing them would thus
-entail needless work for the human translators. Messages used for
-debugging, such as used in dumped tables, should also not be translated.
+like `genattr' (in fact all gen* programs) are not internationalized, as
+their users are GCC maintainers who typically need to be able to read
+English anyway; internationalizing them would thus entail needless work for
+the human translators. Messages used for debugging, such as used in dumped
+tables, should also not be translated.
The GCC library should not contain any messages that need
internationalization, because it operates below the internationalization
library.
-Currently, the only language translation supplied is en_UK (British
-English).
-
Unlike some other GNU programs, the GCC sources contain few instances
of explicit translation calls like _("string"). Instead, the
diagnostic printing routines automatically translate their arguments.