[Po4a-commits] "po-debconf/doc/en po-debconf.7.pod,1.7,1.8"

Nicolas FRANCOIS nekral-guest at alioth.debian.org
Sun Apr 5 12:31:40 UTC 2009


Update of /cvsroot/po4a/po-debconf/doc/en
In directory alioth:/tmp/cvs-serv9203/doc/en

Modified Files:
	po-debconf.7.pod 
Log Message:
 * doc/en/po-debconf.7.pod: encourage __Choices instead of _Choices.
   Thanks to Christian Perrier.


Index: po-debconf.7.pod
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/po4a/po-debconf/doc/en/po-debconf.7.pod,v
retrieving revision 1.7
retrieving revision 1.8
diff -u -d -r1.7 -r1.8
--- po-debconf.7.pod	10 Jan 2009 17:45:55 -0000	1.7
+++ po-debconf.7.pod	5 Apr 2009 12:31:38 -0000	1.8
@@ -137,6 +137,12 @@
 there would be 5 different msgids.  Note that spaces after commas are
 not significant.
 
+When a choices list never changes, C<_Choices> may be considered fine.
+However, splitting such lists may help avoiding frequent mistakes in
+translations such as omitting a choice or using non-standard commas.
+For such reasons, the use of C<__Choices> will ease translator's life and
+is strongly recommended.
+
 Unfortunately if you decide to switch from C<_Choices> to C<__Choices>, all translations
 become fuzzy.  Here is an explanation to make this change without translation
 loss (it requires C<po-debconf> E<gt>= 1.0).  Suppose that we want to switch the




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