Re: Russian translations

[Sam S. <sd...@gn...>]

> * Arseny Slobodjuck <nzcl@vpu.qib.eh> [2004-03-13 10:51:09 +1000]:
>
>> I believe the Russian translations to be good enough, but YMMV, so
>> patches are welcome.
> As of translation - I believe it's wrong to translate charset
> conversion error messages, it can lead to situation when a program
> cannot print error message because of error during printing the error
> message.. For example it can be caused by wrong -E setting.

Good point. The best way to ensure that this never happens is not to use
gettext on such messages.  Trouble is that in some languages (but
obviously not in Russian!) the appropriate error messages may be spelled
with ASCII, so this might be an unnecessary limitation for such
languages.  Moreover, I seem to vaguely recall that there was a comment
once next to a message saying something like "translate using only
ASCII".

Since I am ASCII-only, I will defer to Bruno for deciding this issue.

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