From: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 19:26:54 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: doc: improve remove prompt translator comment
X-Git-Tag: v8.23~92
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=943f3592ca10caaee7b991078f33a4e0f985a2f8;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

doc: improve remove prompt translator comment

* src/remove.c (prompt): Explain where the difficulty with translating
these two strings resides, and suggest an alternative: the one that
Paul Eggert first proposed back in 2002, which seems fully resistant.
---

diff --git a/src/remove.c b/src/remove.c
index b98f3ecb28..4cc4a08176 100644
--- a/src/remove.c
+++ b/src/remove.c
@@ -283,10 +283,11 @@ prompt (FTS const *fts, FTSENT const *ent, bool is_dir,
 
           fprintf (stderr,
                    (write_protected
-                    /* TRANSLATORS: You may find it more convenient to
-                       translate "%s: remove %s (write-protected) %s? "
-                       instead.  It should avoid grammatical problems
-                       with the output of file_type.  */
+                    /* TRANSLATORS: In the next two strings the second %s is
+                       replaced by the type of the file.  To avoid grammatical
+                       problems, it may be more convenient to translate these
+                       strings instead as: "%1$s: %3$s is write-protected and
+                       is of type '%2$s' -- remove it? ".  */
                     ? _("%s: remove write-protected %s %s? ")
                     : _("%s: remove %s %s? ")),
                    program_name, file_type (sbuf), quoted_name);