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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index c57c0bab63..9e301d0072 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -19147,6 +19147,18 @@ Translation Project} so that as many users as possible can read them in their native language. User interfaces search them and display them in the language specified by the current locale. +To allow @command{xgettext} to extract them as translatable strings, +synopses and descriptions @emph{must be literal strings}. This means +that you cannot use @code{string-append} or @code{format} to construct +these strings: + +@lisp +(package + ;; @dots{} + (synopsis "This is translatable") + (description (string-append "This is " "*not*" " translatable."))) +@end lisp + Translation is a lot of work so, as a packager, please pay even more attention to your synopses and descriptions as every change may entail additional work for translators. In order to help them, it is possible |