[Scilab-users] Behavior of gettext

[Federico Miyara]

Thank you Samuel, this one does work!

I understand the verbosity issue (it's the age of SMS's and WhatsApp's). 
However, the "orthogonality", in spite of being a good idea to avoid 
many instances of similar messages, would be really useful if some way 
to combine short messages did exist. But I'm afraid it is a very hard 
problem since the way things combine in different languages may be quite 
different, particularly word order.

Federico


On 12/03/2019 21:19, Samuel Gougeon wrote:
> Le 12/03/2019 à 21:31, Federico Miyara a écrit :
>>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I try to get this error message translated:
>>
>> msprintf(gettext("%s: Argument #%d: Vector expected.\n"), 
>> "bandfilter", 1)
>>
>> 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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