From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 08:21:07 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (prompt): Add a comment to help translators work
X-Git-Tag: FILEUTILS-4_1_9~2
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6e78c788f0588fd7c0c4f557d274ef46ca9bad80;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(prompt): Add a comment to help translators work
around the problem of making the translations of the adjective
`write-protected' and the corresponding run-time-variable noun
(e.g., file, directory, symlink, etc.) consistent.  From Paul Eggert.
---

diff --git a/src/remove.c b/src/remove.c
index 6fc8a1dc22..b90055c194 100644
--- a/src/remove.c
+++ b/src/remove.c
@@ -598,11 +598,18 @@ prompt (char const *filename, struct rm_options const *x,
 		    : _("%s: descend into directory %s? ")),
 		   program_name, quoted_name);
 	else
-	  fprintf (stderr,
-		   (write_protected
-		    ? _("%s: remove write-protected %s %s? ")
-		    : _("%s: remove %s %s? ")),
-		   program_name, file_type (&sbuf), quoted_name);
+	  {
+	    /* TRANSLATORS: You may find it more convenient to translate
+	       the equivalent of _("%1$s: %3$s is write-protected and is
+	       of type `%2$s'.  Remove it? ").  This is more verbose than
+	       the original but it should avoid grammatical problems with
+	       the output of file_type.  */
+	    fprintf (stderr,
+		     (write_protected
+		      ? _("%s: remove write-protected %s %s? ")
+		      : _("%s: remove %s %s? ")),
+		     program_name, file_type (&sbuf), quoted_name);
+	  }
 
 	if (!yesno ())
 	  return RM_USER_DECLINED;