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From: Chao Li <[email protected]>
To: Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Smith <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Redundant/mis-use of _(x) gettext macro?
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2026 11:11:04 +0800
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> On Apr 2, 2026, at 10:55, Peter Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Apr 1, 2026 at 10:52 PM Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> On 2026-Apr-01, Peter Smith wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi.
>>> 
>>> As originally reported [1] in the EXCEPT (TABLE ...) thread, I felt
>>> the _() gettext macro is mis-used when it contains nothing but a
>>> quoted format string.
>> 
>> No, you feel wrong -- this is necessary so that the translator has
>> control over the quoting style of a list of items.  Not all translations
>> use double quoting.  Some examples from different language files:
>> 
>> msgstr "unbekannte Komprimierungsoption: »%s«"
>> msgstr "opción de compresión no reconocida: «%s»"
>> msgstr "option de compression inconnue : « %s »"
>> msgstr "tidak dapat menentukan encoding untuk lokal « %s » : codesetnya adalah « %s »"
>> 
> 
> OK. Thanks for your explanation.
> 

Yep, good to learn. Noted.

Best regards,
--
Chao Li (Evan)
HighGo Software Co., Ltd.
https://www.highgo.com/

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