From: Sergey Poznyakoff Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 16:29:08 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Add translators' comment X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5cf84df777c8c9d069ee2d83e71f04c53586a3b2;p=chaz%2Ftar Add translators' comment --- diff --git a/src/misc.c b/src/misc.c index e6e5c85..0ade200 100644 --- a/src/misc.c +++ b/src/misc.c @@ -549,6 +549,10 @@ static void call_arg_error (char const *call, char const *name) { int e = errno; + /* TRANSLATORS: %s after `Cannot' is a function name, e.g. `Cannot open'. + Directly translating this to another language will not work, first because + %s itself is not translated. + Translate it as `%s: Function %s failed'. */ ERROR ((0, e, _("%s: Cannot %s"), quotearg_colon (name), call)); } @@ -558,6 +562,10 @@ static void call_arg_fatal (char const *call, char const *name) { int e = errno; + /* TRANSLATORS: %s after `Cannot' is a function name, e.g. `Cannot open'. + Directly translating this to another language will not work, first because + %s itself is not translated. + Translate it as `%s: Function %s failed'. */ FATAL_ERROR ((0, e, _("%s: Cannot %s"), quotearg_colon (name), call)); } @@ -567,6 +575,10 @@ static void call_arg_warn (char const *call, char const *name) { int e = errno; + /* TRANSLATORS: %s after `Cannot' is a function name, e.g. `Cannot open'. + Directly translating this to another language will not work, first because + %s itself is not translated. + Translate it as `%s: Function %s failed'. */ WARN ((0, e, _("%s: Warning: Cannot %s"), quotearg_colon (name), call)); } @@ -686,8 +698,8 @@ read_error_details (char const *name, off_t offset, size_t size) char buf[UINTMAX_STRSIZE_BOUND]; int e = errno; ERROR ((0, e, - ngettext ("%s: Read error at byte %s, reading %lu byte", - "%s: Read error at byte %s, reading %lu bytes", + ngettext ("%s: Read error at byte %s, while reading %lu byte", + "%s: Read error at byte %s, while reading %lu bytes", size), quotearg_colon (name), STRINGIFY_BIGINT (offset, buf), (unsigned long) size)); @@ -699,8 +711,8 @@ read_warn_details (char const *name, off_t offset, size_t size) char buf[UINTMAX_STRSIZE_BOUND]; int e = errno; WARN ((0, e, - ngettext ("%s: Warning: Read error at byte %s, reading %lu byte", - "%s: Warning: Read error at byte %s, reading %lu bytes", + ngettext ("%s: Warning: Read error at byte %s, while reading %lu byte", + "%s: Warning: Read error at byte %s, while reading %lu bytes", size), quotearg_colon (name), STRINGIFY_BIGINT (offset, buf), (unsigned long) size));