From 943f3592ca10caaee7b991078f33a4e0f985a2f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benno Schulenberg Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 21:26:54 +0200 Subject: 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. --- src/remove.c | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/remove.c b/src/remove.c index b98f3ecb2..4cc4a0817 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); -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf