[Scilab-users] Behavior of gettext

[Samuel Gougeon]

Le 12/03/2019 à 21:31, Federico Miyara a écrit :
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> Dear All,
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> I try to get this error message translated:
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> msprintf(gettext("%s: Argument #%d: Vector expected.\n"), "bandfilter", 1)
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> Any idea of what's wrong?

The long historical form is
gettext("%s: Wrong size for argument #%d: Vector expected.\n")

When some students or colleagues ask me for help, i have noticed that 
quite often they did not really read the error message, and i wondered why.
Often, IMO error messages are uselessly verbosy. This is why i proposed
a series of shorter, more straightforward, and more orthogonal ones.

Samuel

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