The N_ macro

[Carlos O'Donell]

On 5/6/20 10:53 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Carlos O'Donell via Libc-alpha:
> 
>> On 5/5/20 8:26 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>>> * Andreas Schwab:
>>>
>>>> On Mai 05 2020, Florian Weimer wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Does that exist in any form today (e.g., as a downstream patch)?
>>>>
>>>> Not that I know of.
>>>
>>> Okay, then what about this?
>>>
>>> We introduce a different macro that is not recognized by the gettext
>>> translation extraction.  We mark the strings in the dynamic loader
>>> that currently cannot be translated with this macro.  This way, we
>>> capture places that could benefit from future translation, but do not
>>> hand out pointless work to volunteers.
>>
>> I like this best. We should continue to mark the strings but not 
>> generate busy work.
> 
> In the meantime, can we please merge the internal documentation update
> I posted?  Thanks.
> 
>   <https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2020-May/113658.html>
> 

Reviewed. Asked for v2.

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Cheers,
Carlos.