Re: [gettext] Translations under a language's main dialect are not found if LANGUAGE contains only the language code

[Bob Proulx]

Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
> But seriously, I have a feeling that the docs isn't crystal clear in
> this respect (either). If I recall it correctly, I did find the
> bug-gnu-gettext address first, but when I was about to subscribe, I was
> taken to the bug-gnu-utils list. My thought at that point was that there
> might have been a gettext list previously, but not any longer...  Only
> when I started to receive messages that were addressed to the
> bug-gnu-gettext address, I realised that it was probably an alias.

Perhaps the README file that specifies bug-gnu-gettext could also
mention that it was an alias to bug-gnu-utils.  It is always a balance
between something being tl;dr and not having enough information.

> Can't help feeling that one mailman list per address would make it much
> easier to understand. And it would make it possible for everyone to
> subscribe only to the list(s) of interest.

For what it is worth I agree.  And I think in recent years the trend
has been to do just that.  But there is still some legacy hanging
around here and there.

Bob