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by benji-york
446 days ago
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You might like top's commit messages, e.g., https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/-/commit/e6f22569e9db16d... commit e6f22569e9db16dbef7d9bdee5bb41b8cb7a03ca Author: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net> Date: Tue Jul 23 00:00:00 2024 -0500 top: attempt once again to allow help text translation
Back when our release 4.0.1 was being readied, sources
were sent to the TP (Translation Project). However one
person named Benno Schulenberg refused to release them
for translation. His stated reason was the top command
line help text which then finally included long forms.
He demanded that the help text be broken into separate
strings instead of a single large string. But, all the
top text (some much more complex) has just one string.
So that stated reason was, at the least, inconsistent.
[ I suspect the real reason was that Mr. Schulenberg ]
[ thought that the carefully right-justified English ]
[ wording would also be required of translations too ]
The bottom line was that Benno took it upon himself to
change the TP motto from "you code, we translate" into
"first we tell you how to code and then we translate".
Rather than bend a knee to that despot, I disabled the
text entirely, admittedly denying users a translation.
Now, with this commit we enable translatable help text
but with a hint included to ignore the justified text.
Reference)s):
. Oct, 2022 - finalized translation exclusion
commit ab05a3785f29cc4b754e17c53bfb3d8ba054563e
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
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