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<font face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">Thank you Samuel, this
one does work!<br>
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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.<br>
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Federico<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/03/2019 21:19, Samuel Gougeon
wrote:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Le 12/03/2019 à 21:31, Federico
Miyara a écrit :<br>
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Dear All,<br>
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<font face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">I try to get this
error message translated:</font><span
style="color:rgb(50,185,185);"><br>
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msprintf</span><span style="color:rgb(74,85,219);">(</span><span
style="color:rgb(50,185,185);">gettext</span><span
style="color:rgb(74,85,219);">(</span><span
style="color:rgb(188,143,143);">"</span><span
style="color:rgb(188,143,143);">%s: Argument #%d: Vector
expected.\n</span><span style="color:rgb(188,143,143);">"</span><span
style="color:rgb(74,85,219);">)</span><span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);">,</span> <span
style="color:rgb(188,143,143);">"</span><span
style="color:rgb(188,143,143);">bandfilter</span><span
style="color:rgb(188,143,143);">"</span><span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);">,</span> <span
style="color:rgb(188,143,143);">1</span><span
style="color:rgb(74,85,219);">)<br>
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</span><font face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">Any idea of
what's wrong?<br>
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The long historical form is<br>
<tt>gettext("%s: Wrong size for argument #%d: Vector expected.\n")</tt><br>
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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.<br>
Often, IMO error messages are uselessly verbosy. This is why i
proposed<br>
a series of shorter, more straightforward, and more orthogonal
ones.<br>
<br>
Samuel<br>
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