[PATCH] Document the internal _ and N_ macros
Florian Weimer
fw@deneb.enyo.de
Wed May 6 15:27:29 GMT 2020
* Carlos O'Donell:
> On 5/6/20 5:23 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> -----
>> Tested by building glibc on x86_64-linux-gnu.
>>
>
> Please post v2 for review.
>> + deprecated because using N_ for strings which are not translated
>> + after all creates unnecessary work for the translation team: glibc
>> + does not currently use those translations, and that may never
>> + change. */
>
> Suggest:
>
> In the future this historic usage of N_ may become deprecated. Strings
> which are not translated create unnecessary work for the translation
> team. We continue to use N_ because it helps mark translatable strings.
Thanks, v2 posted:
<https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2020-May/113667.html>
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