Re: lynx-dev translations

[Webmaster Jim]

On Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 03:19:40PM -0800, Eduardo Chappa L. wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>   I have been reading the file lynx.po for translating it into spanish. I
> was noticing that when a user is prompted to answer a question in the
> Yes/No format, is always prompted Y/N, which therefore is not posible to
> translate, because in Spanish you would use S/N. Is it possible to
> incorporate this kind of things into the code or is this something that is
> not worth it for you to waste the time ? Maybe something like a keymap for
> Yes and other for Not while answering this questions could make the trick.
> 
>   Thanks, have a nice day.

It's on the "list of things to do." Some of the French translations have
"O/N", but the code is still expecting "Y/N." Code to do this properly
is not in Lynx, but may be elsewhere available for adoption. I haven't
looked for it, however.

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