terminology: zero character vs. null character

Hi, I am currently translating GCC into German. During that, I noticed that in some places the term "zero character" means '\0'. The official term though is "null character", as per the C standard. Since it is confusing to have two different terms for the same concept, the term "zero character" s

diagnostics: %<%s%> vs. %qs

Hi, in the diagnostics the %qs specifier is used in most of the cases. But there are some cases left where the more complicated %<%s%> is used. Is there a good reason to prefer the complicated spelling? Same for %<%T%> and %qT, and similar letters. Regards, Roland

Diagnostics that should not be translated

Hi, the gcc.pot file currently contains more than 12000 messages to be translated, which is a very high number. Many of these messages are diagnostics, and they can be categorized as follows: * errors in user programs, reported via error () * additional info for internal errors, reported via erro

Re: Diagnostics that should not be translated

Am 15.03.2017 um 03:43 schrieb Martin Sebor: > Would using the existing internal_error{,no_backtrace}, and > sorry work for this? (I.e., not translating those.) If my > count is right there are nearly 500 calls to these three in > GCC sources so I'm not sure that would put enough of a dent > in th