Re: [Bashburn-info] Question on Language files

[Nick W. <ni...@uk...>]

On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:50:09 +0200
Anders Lindén <and...@gm...> wrote:

> On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 16:08 -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> > On Sunday, Aug 31st 2008 at 14:39 -0000, quoth Nick Warne:
> > 
> > =>I just noticed a lot of the English Lang files text is wrapped in
> > =>singles quotes '  whereas most other languages use double quotes "
> > =>
> > =>Why is this?  Does it matter?  Should there be a convention
> > anyway if =>either work (as they seem to do)?
> > =>
> > =>I can clean up if desired tomorrow (pub time now ;-) )
> > =>
> > =>Nick
> > 
> > There's nothing wrong with how things are written. using any of the 
> > working quoting systems. I personally use a style that I developed
> > called The Steven Orr System of Minimal Shell Quoting. (patent
> > pending) :-(
> > 
> > Anyhoo, it looks like this:
> > 
> > foo=Hello					# Case 1
> > bar='Woops. I slipped.'				# Cabe B
> > baz="I like to say $foo when I meet peopls."	# Case iii
> > 
> > so what you have here is three distinct situations:
> > 
> > In case 1, the value in question is a s single word. There is no
> > need to quote anything. You are allowed to use both single or
> > double quotes, but but not using anything, the reader of the code
> > immediately sees that there is a value that is composed of just one
> > word.
> > 
> > Case 2 is obviously a multi-word value with no variable expansion.
> > No double quotes needed. Yes, "s are legal, but I can look at a
> > long string and see right away that there is no variable expansion
> > going on.
> > 
> > Case 3 tells me right away that there are variables afoot.
> > 
> > So you asked about a convention? There it is.
> > 
> > Do you hate it? Do you love it?
> > 
> 
> Sound great to me. I think we should use this system, and I'll contact
> Stevens lawyers to settle a licensing fee. :-)
> 

I dunno if I said it right.  The files under bashburn/lang/ ...

e.g.


./lang/German/BashBurn.lang:22:bb_text_7="Suche CD Brenner...."
./lang/Czech/BashBurn.lang:22:bb_text_7="Detekuji CD mechaniku ...."
./lang/Norwegian/BashBurn.lang:22:bb_text_7="Finn cd-brennar...."
./lang/Spanish/BashBurn.lang:22:bb_text_7="Detectando grabadora de
CD ...."
./lang/English/BashBurn.lang:22:bb_text_7='Detecting CD
Writer ....'
./lang/Italian/BashBurn.lang:22:bb_text_7="Sto cercando il
masterizzatore
cd ...."
./lang/Swedish/BashBurn.lang:22:bb_text_7="Söker efter
CD-brännare ...."
./lang/Polish/BashBurn.lang:22:bb_text_7="Wykrywanie
nagrywarki..."


It is only the English language files that have single quotes...

Nick
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