[Gretl-devel] Re: to be marked for translation

Am 18.04.2020 um 15:16 schrieb Allin Cottrell: > On Sat, 18 Apr 2020, Sven Schreiber wrote: >> Do I understand correctly -to do it myself in the future- that it would >> have to be replaced with: >> N_("Imported %s") >> ? > > Almost. But the syntax N_(<string>) means "mark this string for > translation but don't actually translate it here". In this case you'd > want _("Imported %s") to get it translated in place. > > The N_() form is used in this kind of context: > > const char *s = N_("Something stringy"); /* mark it */ > ... > printf("%s\n", _(s)); /* actually translate it */ OK thanks. And is anything else needed so that translators get this change in their po files?